This study investigates the perceived and actual trustworthiness and truthfulness of female managers when using rhetoric to advertise their trustworthiness in public disclosure documents. We find that the stock market reacts more favorably to trust rhetoric if the document has been prepared...

Prior work has documented that incoming CEOs make accounting decisions which reduce reported firm performance. It is however unclear what motivates this so-called “big bath” behavior. For one, it might serve to give a more accurate representation of actual firm performance, when the prior...

We investigate the influence of managerial preferences proxied by national culture on takeover performance in a cross-disciplinary international study. To this end, we rely on the cultural dimensions according to Hofstede et al. (2010). Some managerial preferences are related to certain cultural...