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Shareholder activism increases demands on managerial processes to assuage concerns. We investigate how managers interactively use management control systems (MCS) to alleviate shareholder activism in the context of performance declines. We also identify a key factor that helps explain the...
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This study examines firms' decision to voluntarily adopt IFRS in a setting where there are changes to the governance system in a traditionally code law country and how market responses to such decisions. We find the probability of voluntary IFRS adoption to be higher among firms that have a high...
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This study investigates the determinants of firms' decision to impair goodwill under IFRS. Our empirical analysis is based on data for the years 2005 to 2011 for 8,110 non-financial firm-years and 1,358 financial firm-years from 21 countries where firms apply IFRS. We specifically investigate...
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The adoption of the international financial reporting standard (IFRS) has become an important research topic and received considerable attention from many empirical researchers worldwide. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, it's one of the very few efforts to examine the relationship...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between related party transactions disclosure (RPTD) and firm valuation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an emerging market. Data on study variables were obtained manually from the published financial statements of all listed...
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