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The effectiveness of corporate governance is a major factor in forecasting firm performance. We examine the relationships among cross-listing, corporate governance and firm…
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The effectiveness of corporate governance is a major factor in forecasting firm performance. We examine the relationships among cross-listing, corporate governance and firm performance for a sample of Chinese cross-listed companies. We show that cross-listed firms display higher overall quality of corporate governance compared to non-cross-listed firms. Consequently better corporate governance results in higher operating performance. Our results support the bonding hypothesis of cross-listing. Furthermore, we also illustrate that the cross-listing status encapsulates the higher quality of corporate governance that leads to higher operating performance. When forecasting performance of cross-listing companies, it is therefore important to recognize the substitute effect between cross-listing and corporate governance.
Ailing Pan, Qian Wu and Jingwei Li
This paper aims to study the impact of external fairness of executive compensation on M&A premium, and examine the moderate role of institutional investors. The high M&A premium…
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Purpose
This paper aims to study the impact of external fairness of executive compensation on M&A premium, and examine the moderate role of institutional investors. The high M&A premium is the main factors that induce the huge impairment of listed companies’ goodwill and the plummeting performance. Executives are the decision-makers of M&As, and their decision-making process is inevitably affected by the psychological factors. In recent years, institutional investors have become an important external force that can affect the governance of listed companies.
Design/Methodology/Approach
The authors use M&A data of listed companies from 2008 to 2018 and use OLS regression to test the relationship between executive compensation fairness and M&A premium.
Findings
The results show that the lower the external fairness of executive compensation, the greater the M&A premium. Institutional investors can effectively reduce the impact of external compensation unfairness on M&A premiums. The mechanism tests show that executives' psychological perception of fairness induced by external unfairness reduces their motivation to work and prompts them to use high premium to seek alternative compensation incentives. Further examinations of executive characteristics and corporate characteristics show that the role of external unfairness in executive compensation in driving M&A premiums is more pronounced in companies with longer executive tenure, weaker executive reputation incentives and private property.
Originality/Value
This paper enriches the research on the pre-factors of M&A premiums from the perspective of executives’ psychological perception of fairness, provides evidence that institutional investors play a positive governance role and provides decision-making references for companies to take corresponding measures to reduce M&A premium risks.
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Qianqian Yuan, Liansheng Larry Tang, Feng Yang, Diane E. Brandt and Leighton Chan
This paper aims to estimate the performance of the social security administration (SSA) in dealing with disability benefits applications in American.
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Purpose
This paper aims to estimate the performance of the social security administration (SSA) in dealing with disability benefits applications in American.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors propose a multi-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) method to analyze the efficiency of 167 hearing offices (HOs) to find the best performed HOs and inefficient ones and detect total improvement of inefficient and weak efficient offices.
Findings
The results show that totally 299,711 applications were processed and more applications will be processed if all offices can work efficiently. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first one to analyze the performance of SSA HOs using the multi-stage DEA method.
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To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first one to analyze the performance of SSA HOs using the multi-stage DEA method.
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This article discusses the development of document database construction in China from the end of the 1970s, including management systems, operation mechanisms of Chinese document…
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This article discusses the development of document database construction in China from the end of the 1970s, including management systems, operation mechanisms of Chinese document database construction in the 1990s, as well as the main products and condition of various document databases.
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Prihatnolo Gandhi Amidjaya and Ari Kuncara Widagdo
The purpose of this paper is to find empirical evidence of ownership structure and corporate governance (CG) effect on sustainability reporting in Indonesian listed banks. The…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to find empirical evidence of ownership structure and corporate governance (CG) effect on sustainability reporting in Indonesian listed banks. The study also tries to describe sustainability reporting disclosure practice.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors analyze balanced panel data with a total of 155 observations from 2012 to 2016 using panel data regression.
Findings
The findings present empirical evidence that sustainability reporting in Indonesian listed banks is still low. CG, foreign ownership and family ownership positively influence sustainability reporting. Further, the authors find that family ownership weakens the effect of CG while foreign ownership has no significant moderating role. Digital banking is not a significant determinant and OJK sustainable finance roadmap is evidenced to have no impression on bank intention to produce sustainability report.
Research limitations/implications
The use of content analysis method for variable measurement may contain subjectivity substance from the researcher’s perspective. Further research works need confirmation from independent parties with expertise in this subject. Further research works can also implement the mixed method by combining quantitative and qualitative approach to gain better quality.
Practical implications
The result of this study underlines the need for sustainability reporting improvement, followed by suggestions for Indonesian banking regulator.
Originality/value
This paper provides a description of Indonesian banks sustainability reporting and evidence of CG and controlling owner’s role in its practice. The research presents a novelty, examining the role of digital banking as determinant.
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Fouad Jamaani and Manal Alidarous
This study aims to examine the short- and long-lived effects of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) mandate on the quality of reporting information of initial…
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Purpose
This study aims to examine the short- and long-lived effects of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) mandate on the quality of reporting information of initial public offering (IPO) firms in emerging market economies.
Design/methodology/approach
The study used several difference-in-differences models for a sample comprising 102 Saudi Arabian IPO firms for 2003–2017.
Findings
It found that mandating the application of the IFRS had a significant short-lived but no long-lived effect on IPO firms’ information asymmetry. When information asymmetry was high such as in the primary market, the IFRS succeeded in alleviating the underpricing of IPO firms. Conversely, in the secondary market, with negligible information asymmetry, the IFRS was not beneficial for the long-term performance of companies in the IPO market.
Originality/value
This study is the first of its kind in the emerging market context and has important implications for IPO investors and analysts, IFRS-IPO researchers and policymakers in emerging economies. The results empirically confirmed that the IFRS mandate had solely a short-lived effect and no long-lasting impact, on the problem of asymmetric information in the IPO market. The effectiveness of the IFRS in producing quality financial reporting is contingent upon large-scale information asymmetry and vanishes when investors and analysts have abundant information about listed firms, even for emerging economies such as Saudi Arabia.
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Linsheng Huang, Yashan Chen and Yile Chen
This study aims to explore the relationship between folk religious place-making and the development of urban public spaces and summarize its influence on community network…
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Purpose
This study aims to explore the relationship between folk religious place-making and the development of urban public spaces and summarize its influence on community network construction and daily behavior to discover the authentic practices and role of folk faith culture in social space.
Design/methodology/approach
Taking Macau's Shi Gandang Temple and its belief culture as an example, on-site research, historical evidence and interviews were used to elaborate and analyze the processes of place-making, social functions, management mechanisms and folk culture to establish a new perception of folk religious place-making in contemporary urban spaces.
Findings
The article argues that the culture of folk beliefs profoundly influences urban spaces and the social management system of Macau and has a positive significance in building the local community and geopolitical relations. In addition, it suggests that the participation of folk religious places in local practices is important as key nodes and emotional hubs of local networks, reconciling conflicts between communities of different backgrounds and driving urban spaces toward diversity while forming a positive interaction and friendly cooperation between regional development and self-contained management mechanisms, governance models and cultural orientations.
Originality/value
This study takes an architectural and anthropological perspective of the impact of faith on urban spaces and local governance, using the Shi Gandang Temple in Macau as an example, to complement related studies.
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Xiqiong He, Sibo Wang, Hao Liu and Jiayi Liu
Heterogeneous risk disclosure has been proven to improve the efficiency of new stock issuance, but excessive risk disclosure during the IPO may lead to irrational underestimation…
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Purpose
Heterogeneous risk disclosure has been proven to improve the efficiency of new stock issuance, but excessive risk disclosure during the IPO may lead to irrational underestimation of the company, which is different from the original intention of management's detailed disclosure. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of IPO heterogeneous risk disclosure on earnings management motivations from the information transfer perspective of earnings management.
Design/methodology/approach
The sample includes 2,000 listed companies listed firms on Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2007 to 2022. This study uses the pretrained ERNIE model to measure text similarity in the prospectus to measure the heterogeneity of IPO risk disclosure.
Findings
This study empirically finds that heterogeneous IPO risk disclosure suppresses the opportunistic motivation of earnings management because managers tend to use earnings management to leverage information transmission functions. Such an effect is more pronounced in firms with higher analyst attention, lower marketization levels and non-state-owned. And heterogeneous risk disclosure may inhibit management’s over-investment behavior, thereby reducing the possibility of management engaging in opportunistic earnings management. Besides, price discounts are used to distinguish opportunistic and non-opportunistic earnings management and carry out a quasi-natural experimental design to demonstrate that marketization can enhance the relationship between heterogeneous risk disclosure and earnings management.
Originality/value
This study contributes evidence regarding the economic consequences of managerial earnings management behavior related to heterogeneous IPO risk disclosure. It supports highlighted firms in the IPO risk information disclosure to mitigate potential adverse outcomes through earnings management. This contributes to the literature and enhances information transparency in the capital market, fostering the healthy development of China’s capital market.
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Jinyu Yang, Bin Liu and Lihua Yuan
This paper comes to the point from the tax competition of local government in investment promotion and capital introduction. This paper aims to empirically examine the internal…
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Purpose
This paper comes to the point from the tax competition of local government in investment promotion and capital introduction. This paper aims to empirically examine the internal mechanism of enterprises obtaining land resources from local government and its resulting equity investment increase and economic consequences of overinvestment.
Design/methodology/approach
The data of China’s A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2014 were used to test the relationship between the increase in enterprise equity investment and the acquisition of land resources and overinvestment. The descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and least squares linear regression were used to solve the above question.
Findings
One of the reasons for the enterprise equity increase is to obtain scarce land resources. The enterprise acquisition for land resources leads to overinvestment. The equity investment increase from obtaining land resources will further stimulate enterprise group to overinvest.
Research limitations/implications
The authors could not get the actual data of land that subsidiaries have obtained directly. In this research, the authors get the data using consolidated statements and subsidiary statements indirectly.
Practical implications
The results make contributions to the influencing factors and economic consequence of the enterprise investment structural deviation.
Social implications
It provides reference to optimize the “interaction” relationship between government and enterprises.
Originality/value
It identified the “dual-channel” conduction mechanism between land resource acquisition and enterprise overinvestment.
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