Founder or descendant CEOs, tax avoidance and firms' future risks: the Indonesian evidence
Journal of Family Business Management
ISSN: 2043-6238
Article publication date: 15 March 2023
Issue publication date: 14 November 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to examine the impact of founder or descendant chief executive officers (CEOs) on the relationship between tax avoidance and firms' future risk. This issue is important because of an ongoing debate about founder and descendant CEOs' impacts, contributions and implications for firms.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a sample of publicly listed nonfinancial Indonesian firms in 2012–2019, most of which are family firms and adhere to a two-tier governance system that was understudied in previous studies. The authors use panel-random effect data regression for the statistical analysis.
Findings
The results demonstrate that founder or descendant CEOs do not affect the positive relationship between tax avoidance and firms' future risks.
Research limitations/implications
This research supports the upper-echelon theory, arguing that top management teams affect firms' strategic policies and outcomes.
Practical implications
CEOs play weaker roles in countries with a two-tier governance system than in a one-tier one. Additionally, in relation to Hofstede's cultural dimensions, Indonesia has collective and feminist characteristics that emphasize elements of togetherness and group so that firms reflect the firms' top management teams and not only CEOs.
Originality/value
This research fills a research gap on the role of founder and descendant CEOs in the relationship between tax avoidance and firms' future risks by analyzing firms in Indonesia, a country with a two-tier governance system and collective and feminine cultural characteristics.
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Citation
Sutrisno, P., Utama, S., Hermawan, A.A. and Fatima, E. (2023), "Founder or descendant CEOs, tax avoidance and firms' future risks: the Indonesian evidence", Journal of Family Business Management, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 1190-1211. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-10-2022-0122
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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