Contexte : Un nouveau système d'épargne, les RVER Ce rapport présente nos résultats de recherche dans le cadre du second mandat d'une série de projets sur l'épargne-retraite et les fonds de pension. L'objectif du premier rapport était d'examiner la protection offerte aux Québécoises et...

Purpose – To provide insights as to the determinants of profit‐sharing plan (PSP) adoption, as well as conditions that underlie their successful implementation. Design/methodology/approach – The sample comprises strategic business units (SBUs) within a large financial services...

Purpose Family firms possess dual identities, being the family and the business, which can be segmented and integrated to various degrees. This study examines whether and how management control technologies are calibrated to fit into the dual identities of family firms....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether formally disclosing an earnings before interests, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) number reduces the information asymmetry between managers and investors beyond the release of GAAP earnings. The paper also assess if...

Purpose – The aim of the paper is to investigate whether social disclosure and environmental disclosure have a substituting or a complementing effect in reducing information asymmetry between managers and stock market participants Design/methodology/approach – This study attempts to provide...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how the tension between a firm’s CEO power features and externally observable hubris attributes may determine the likelihood of financial misreporting. Design/methodology/approach – The analyses are based on a sample of 16 Canadian firms...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess if a firm’s ethical lapses, which result from unethical behavior or actions, influence its social disclosure (SD) practices as well as how ethical lapses affect both the firm’s legitimacy within society and its standing in financial markets....

Purpose This paper aims to examine how the use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) incentives intersects with top management power and various corporate governance mechanisms to affect excess annual cash bonus compensation. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a novel artificial...

Purpose – The authors aims to examine, first, what factors appear to lead those US companies that do obtain assurance on their CSR reports to do so, and second, whether this assurance appears to be valued by market participants. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use logistic...