{"title":"Employee treatment and discontinued operations","authors":"Lori Leonard, Li Sun","doi":"10.1108/ara-09-2021-0170","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThe authors investigate the relation between employee treatment and the likelihood of discontinuing business operations.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use regression analysis to investigate the relation between employee treatment and the likelihood of discontinuing business operations.FindingsThe authors find a significant negative relation between employee treatment and the likelihood of discontinuing business operations, suggesting that firms with better employee treatment are less likely to discontinue operations.Originality/valueThis study contributes to two distinctive steams of research: discontinued operations in accounting literature and employee welfare in human resources management literature.","PeriodicalId":8562,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of Accounting","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asian Review of Accounting","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ara-09-2021-0170","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
PurposeThe authors investigate the relation between employee treatment and the likelihood of discontinuing business operations.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use regression analysis to investigate the relation between employee treatment and the likelihood of discontinuing business operations.FindingsThe authors find a significant negative relation between employee treatment and the likelihood of discontinuing business operations, suggesting that firms with better employee treatment are less likely to discontinue operations.Originality/valueThis study contributes to two distinctive steams of research: discontinued operations in accounting literature and employee welfare in human resources management literature.
期刊介绍:
Covering various fields of accounting, Asian Review of Accounting publishes research papers, commentary notes, review papers and practitioner oriented articles that address significant international issues as well as those that focus on Asia Pacific in particular.Coverage includes but is not limited to: -Financial accounting -Managerial accounting -Auditing -Taxation -Accounting information systems -Social and environmental accounting -Accounting education Perspectives or viewpoints arising from regional, national or international focus, a private or public sector information need, or a market-perspective or social and environmental perspective are greatly welcomed. Manuscripts that present viewpoints should address issues of wide interest among accounting scholars internationally and those in Asia Pacific in particular.