We contribute to the literature on auditor’s task-specific expertise by examining the role of auditor experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), a complicated and increasingly prevalent corporate event that can give rise to misreporting. We find that in industries with more complex...

We conceptualize mergers as one of several strategies for creating value and study merger performance by evaluating the performance of firms employing an acquisitive strategy. Relative to other firms, acquisitive firms are valued lower, innovate less, and exhibit lower employee and total factor...

Collaborative partnerships create interfirm linkages that potentially tie the fortunes of partnering firms to changing circumstances and decisions of each other. Yet not much is known about how firms in such partnerships are affected by their partners' post-formation decisions outside of...