Purpose: The authors study the effects of altruism and intention for succession on family firm's reputation risk-taking behaviors in Chinese publicly listed companies. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use earnings management as a proxy for reputation risk in family firms, and...

We discuss implementation problems and test approaches for using the full-information approach for estimating divisional betas. For both full-information and pure-play estimates, variations using capital structure adjusted betas perform better than those with raw betas, and those with betas...

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...

Using a sample of 4,195 observations from 19 emerging markets, we investigate how internal corporate governance, external monitoring, and legal and business environment jointly affect a firm's managerial effectiveness in environmental information transparency in an international setting. The...