Cheng, Xiaoyan; Gao, Lei; Lawrence, Janice; Smith, David B. - 2014
We rely on governance theory summarized in Adams, Hermalin, and Weisbach (2010) and Bushman (2009) which suggests that corporate governance characteristics may be endogenous. This differs from past research that links governance to fraud (i.e., Farber 2005) and assumes corporate governance is...