{"title":"Does The Implementation Of ERP Improve The Quality Of Accounting Information? Evidence From Chinese A-Share Listed Manufacturing Firms","authors":"Peiyu Ou, Hong Zhao, Zhao Zhou","doi":"10.19030/JABR.V34I1.10090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/JABR.V34I1.10090","url":null,"abstract":"Using the data of Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms, the study explores the influence of ERP implementation on accounting information quality from reliability and relevance. Also, the study verifies the difference of the influence in firms which have different sizes and different ownership types. Compared with the firms not implementing ERP, accounting information quality of the firms implementing ERP improves significantly. In addition, the positive influence differs in firms of different sizes and different ownership types. In large-sized firms, ERP implementation has stronger influence on reliability of accounting information. In non-state-owned firms, ERP implementation has stronger influence on accounting information quality in respect to reliability and relevance. Our study supplies the new evidence to gauge the impact of ERP implementation on accounting information quality in an emerging economy context.","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"34 1","pages":"43-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44774158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stock Market Volatility And Presidential Election Uncertainty: Evidence From Political Futures Markets","authors":"David R. Bowes","doi":"10.19030/JABR.V34I1.10105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/JABR.V34I1.10105","url":null,"abstract":"Uncertainty about the economy can increase volatility in financial market returns. One potential source of uncertainty is the outcome of an upcoming national election. This paper uses a GARCH model to estimate the effect of uncertainty surrounding U.S. Presidential elections on the volatility of U.S. stock market returns from 1992-2012. Uncertainty in these elections is measured using asset prices from the Iowa Electronic Market (IEM), an on-line futures market based on real-world events, including U.S. elections. The empirical results show that the conditional variance in S&P 500 returns increases when IEM presidential election futures market asset prices indicate greater uncertainty about the outcome of an upcoming election.","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"34 1","pages":"143-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45891511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence Of Job Insecurity On Career Commitment And Attitude In Multinational Corporations","authors":"K. Yoon, Sungho Oh, Bo-Young Kim","doi":"10.19030/JABR.V34I1.10096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/JABR.V34I1.10096","url":null,"abstract":"As the perception of lifelong work shifts into lifelong career in the job insecurity market, the career development of employees through professional and competitive career management has become more important than being loyal to a lifelong work. Furthermore, in the case of multinational corporations, such as differentiation from the head office policy, cultural differences in labor relations, and the liquidity of business withdrawal, such a feature has a higher possibility of job insecurity than general companies. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to verify empirically how job insecurity influences career commitment and career attitude through individual, job and career characteristics as intermediation with the members of multinational corporations as objectives. For this purpose, a total of 366 questionnaire data that targeted 27 multinational corporations were collected and analyzed. The result shows that the job insecurity of multinational corporations affects individual characteristic rather than job or career characteristic, and it is confirmed that individual characteristic has an effect on career commitment and career attitude. In the end, multinational corporations, unlike ordinary domestic companies, need active organizational career development program that corresponds to an open corporate culture as well as innovative and open systems and policies that balance both internal and external networking activities in terms of human resource management of corporations.","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"34 1","pages":"81-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41992372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Earnings Predictability And Broker-Analysts’ Earnings Forecast Bias","authors":"Michael Eames, Steven M. Glover","doi":"10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10061","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars have reasoned that analysts issue optimistic forecasts to improve their access to managers’ private information when earnings are unpredictable. While this requires a managerial preference for analyst forecast optimism, the observed walk-down of analyst expectations to beatable forecasts is consistent with a managerial preference for pessimism in short-horizon forecasts. Using data from various sample periods, alternative model specifications, and various measures of earnings unpredictability, we find that pessimism, not optimism, in short-horizon forecasts is associated with increasingly unpredictable earnings. Our results suggest that firms can more effectively manage analysts’ earnings expectations downward when earnings are relatively unpredictable. and earnings forecasts (Altınkılıç, Balashov & Hansen 2013) on recent news and events.","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"1285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46315373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study On Accounting Conservatism Of Capital-Raising Corporations","authors":"Soonwook Hong","doi":"10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10062","url":null,"abstract":"Various factors affect conservative accounting of corporations. Most of all, this paper focuses on the factor of corporate capital raising. One of the important roles of conservatism is that companies conduct conservative accounting to cut the agency costs due to information asymmetry. Managers may desire excellent management performance and stable financial condition. Depending on circumstances, they seek to improve management performance and financial condition by choosing a proper accounting method. That is, they have incentives to carry out less conservative accounting. Companies that raise capital may have stronger incentives to take such an accounting method. On the contrary, if a capital market monitoring system works properly, corporations would conduct conservative accounting to reduce the agency costs. The results of the empirical analysis reveals that the Korean listed companies raising capital choose less conservative accounting than those that do not raise capital. This indicates companies without financing conduct conservative accounting more than those with.","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"1303-1316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42572759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Board Characteristics Constrain Real Earnings Management? Evidence From Korea","authors":"Hyunmin Oh, H. Jeon","doi":"10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10058","url":null,"abstract":"This study empirically analyzes the effect of board characteristics on real earnings management, which is measured by using three proxies including abnormal cash flows from operations, abnormal discretionary expenses, and abnormal production costs. Specifically, we will investigate how board independence (or board size) affects real earnings management. Additionally, we will investigate the relation between the board characteristics and real earnings management according to before K-IFRS mandatory adoption or after K-IFRS mandatory adoption. \u0000The empirical results of this study are as follows. First, the relation between board independence (board size) and the absolute value of abnormal cash flows from operations is statistically significant and positive (+). Second, the relation between board independence (board size) and the absolute value of abnormal production costs is statistically significant and positive (+). Third, the relation between board independence (board size) and the absolute value of abnormal discretionary expenses is statistically significant and positive (+). These findings present that the board independence (or board size) does not constrain real earnings management. Thus, these mean that board independence (or board size) does not work as a mechanism to reduce real earnings management. \u0000This study contributes to accounting research as it directly tests the relation between the board characteristics and real earnings management in Korea, providing empirical support that a board independence (board size) does not constrain real earnings management as effectively as it constrains accrual earnings management.","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"1251-1262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42999271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Product Market Competition And Analysts’ Forecasting Properties: Evidence From Korea","authors":"Jaeho Lee, Kyoungwon Mo","doi":"10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10052","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we examine the association between product market competition and financial analysts’ forecasting properties in a sample of 76,621 analyst-firm-year observations in South Korea between 2000 and 2014. Using the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index to proxy for product market competition, we document that financial analysts are likely to issue less accurate and more optimistic forecasts in highly competitive product markets. In addition, we find that analysts’ reports show more optimism in stock recommendations in firms with high market competition.","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"1153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42811223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Double Deviation Investigation Of Perceived Service Recovery Justice: A Study On The Indonesian Airline Industry","authors":"Jeanne Ellyawati","doi":"10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10059","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to establish a fair service recovery model based on customer perception on the Indonesian \u0000domestic airline industry under force majeure conditions. The study tried to investigate the influence of perceived \u0000service recovery justice on service recovery satisfaction (SRS), repeat purchase, and word of mouth (WOM). A \u0000sample of 300 aircraft passengers was selected using a survey. The response rate was 84.33%. Regression analysis \u0000was employed to verify the hypotheses. Based on the empirical research, it was found that perceived service \u0000recovery justice (distributive, procedural, and interactional justice) positively influenced SRS. Furthermore, the \u0000mean values of all three perceived justice variables were lower. Thus, it can be confirmed that double deviation \u0000occurred. The study also found that satisfied consumers tend to make repeat purchases and spread positive WOM. \u0000Consumers who experience dissatisfaction spread negative WOM but still make a repeat purchase. This indicates \u0000that even though customers experienced double deviation of service failures, they are still loyal to the company","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"1263-1272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49489513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects Of Environmental Uncertainty And Search Costs On Relational Norms In Interfirm Relationships","authors":"Minhye Park, Moonki Kyle Rhee, Jungtae Kim","doi":"10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/JABR.V33I6.10060","url":null,"abstract":"Many firms use network perspectives in the context of interfirm relationships, an approach that is causing a rapid change in industrial dynamics. However, although most firms are connected with exchange partners, it is difficult to have positive relationships because of the latter is opportunistic behavior. This study considers the factor of industrial dynamics in interfirm relationships. Thus, we investigate the moderation effect of network embeddedness in relational norms on environmental uncertainty and search costs regarding interfirm relationships. Specifically, we identify network relationships and focus on changes of network norms in a focal firm and its exchange partners. Consequently, this study offers several theoretical and managerial implications, and suggests areas of future research regarding interfirm relationships.","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"1273-1284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41670258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investment efficiency between listed and unlisted firms, and big 4 audit firms’ effect: Evidence from Korea","authors":"Sambock Park, Im-Hyeon Kim, Wooyoung Kim","doi":"10.19030/jabr.v33i6.10048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19030/jabr.v33i6.10048","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the difference in investment efficiency between listed and unlisted firms and the effects of auditing by Big 4 audit firms on the investment efficiency of firms. Generally, listed firms are large in size, have a high level of stakeholders’ demands on the firm information, and show large ripple effects of managers’ decision making. Listed firms have a demand hypothesis that they are motivated to provide high quality accounting information and an opportunistic behavior hypothesis that they are more motivated to make opportunistic financial reporting to meet the expectations of capital markets compared to unlisted firms. Consistent with previous study (Chen, Hope, Li & Wang, 2011), this study measures investment efficiency using the investment forecasting model as a growth opportunity function. The results of the study, in the analysis of full samples, the listed firms have significantly higher investment efficiency than the unlisted ones. In the over-investment samples, it is found that the listed firms have higher investment efficiency. On the contrary, in the under-investment samples, indicate it is found that the unlisted firms have higher investment efficiency. Finally, it is found that listed firms audited by Big 4 audit firms have the higher investment efficiency. This study contributes to the literature on investment efficiency of listed and unlisted firms. Finally, it is expected that it will provide useful information on investment efficiency by expanding the scope of research and making the measurement of variables more precise.","PeriodicalId":40064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Business Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"1095"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42199390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}