We investigate how family involvement in the ownership, management, or governance of a business affects its engagement in earnings management both directly and indirectly through its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Using a sample of S&P 500 companies, we find that family firms...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how foreign and domestic investors differ in their beliefs about the relative merits of a firm's political connections. Design/methodology/approach - These differences are employed to explain cross-sectional variation in the previously...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how foreign and domestic investors differ in their beliefs about the relative merits of a firm's political connections. Design/methodology/approach – These differences are employed to explain cross-sectional variation in the previously...

Based on a sample of 539 angel investors, we empirically test the impact of new ventures resource acquisition/allocation strategies in different development stages on angels abnormal returns and their extremeness. Our exploratory findings suggest that at early stages of development, ventures...

This study explores how the ethnicity of small business owners affects the influences of family ownership on their willingness to borrow. While the willingness issue is fundamental in the literature on small business debt financing, it has been understudied. We introduce an indirect measure of...