The goal of this study is to test the cost stickiness for some firms in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) by panel data analysis. The study is based on 2023 observations of 119 firms whose stocks were in process uninterruptedly in the period of 1995-2011 in ISE. As a result of the study, it is...

Recent work in management accounting offers several novel insights into firms’ cost behavior. This study explores whether financial analysts appropriately incorporate information on two types of cost behavior in predicting earnings - cost variability and cost stickiness. Since analysts’...

This study analyses cost stickiness under the dilemma between current profitability and future sales increase. When activity decreases firms are faced to keep profitability adjusting resources, while they should also consider long term consequences and keep slack resources which allow building...

Do supply chain audits have real effects? We focus on the effect of shared auditors in the supply chain on corporate cost stickiness. When a supplier shares auditors with its customers, the shared auditors provide informational advantages for suppliers' managers, thus revising their optimistic...

Firms' strategies reflect their competitive advantages, such as the prospector focuses on innovation and defenders focus on cost efficiency. The differences in strategies' competitive advantages imply different resource management to different magnitude of cost stickiness. This study examined...

Do supply chain audits have real effects? We focus on the effect of shared auditors in the supply chain on corporate cost stickiness. When a supplier shares auditors with its customers, the shared auditors provide informational advantages for suppliers' managers, thus revising their optimistic...

This study analyses cost stickiness under the dilemma between current profitability and future sales increase. When activity decreases firms are faced to keep profitability adjusting resources, while they should also consider long term consequences and keep slack resources which allow building...

Firms' strategies reflect their competitive advantages, such as the prospector focuses on innovation and defenders focus on cost efficiency. The differences in strategies' competitive advantages imply different resource management to different magnitude of cost stickiness. This study examined...