(VF)Cet article étudie l’influence du niveau de confiance interpersonnelle entre capital-investisseurs (CI) et dirigeants sur les processus d’interaction, sur les rôles des CI dans la phase post-investissement, et sur la performance financière des investissements. L’hypothèse centrale...

This paper focuses on the pay level of the highest paid executive directors, which we label as “Executive Director’s Organizational Level” (henceforth EDOL), to raise the question if highest paid CEOs invest heavily in innovative projects. Two-stage least squares (2SLS) regressions show...

The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we...

The recent financial crisis has led to a vigorous debate about the pros and cons of fair-value accounting (FVA). This debate presents a major challenge for FVA going forward and standard setters' push to extend FVA into other areas. In this article, we highlight four important issues as an...

Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) is voluntary in nature. With no specific regulations for IFR, there is a disparity of IFR practices among companies. Some companies disclose only partial financial statements using a low level of technology, while others disclose full sets of financial reports...