Shiyang Hu , Xiao Li , Gary Gang Tian , Jianyu Zhao
{"title":"From debt breaches to employee safety: The hidden power of banking interventions","authors":"Shiyang Hu , Xiao Li , Gary Gang Tian , Jianyu Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101447","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101447","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the influence of bank interventions following breaches of debt covenants on workplace safety. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find robust evidence indicating a substantial decrease in employee injuries after covenant violations. Our channel analysis reveals that the impact of bank interventions is more pronounced when banks perform well in ESG-related employee relationships and take on less risk. Furthermore, the influence of bank interventions is stronger when banks have considerable control over firms and when employees have strong bargaining power. Our findings demonstrate that creditors play an active role in enhancing workplace safety, leading to improved employee welfare. The implications of our research highlight the potential for financial institutions to contribute to socially responsible practices and promote sustainable and safe working environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101447"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890838924002117/pdfft?md5=aa14440f6822b1f6a10beb7bd007699b&pid=1-s2.0-S0890838924002117-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141910571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charl de Villiers , John Dumay , Federica Farneti , Jing Jia , Zhongtian Li
{"title":"Does mandating corporate social and environmental disclosure improve social and environmental performance?: Broad-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of directive 2014/95/EU","authors":"Charl de Villiers , John Dumay , Federica Farneti , Jing Jia , Zhongtian Li","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101437","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101437","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given that the aim of corporate social and environmental <em>disclosure</em> mandates is to improve corporate social and environmental <em>performance</em>, this study investigates the impact of such mandates on performance. Using a difference-in-differences analysis, we examine trends in corporate social and environmental performance before and after the introduction of Directive 2014/95/EU (hereafter, the Directive), comparing affected European companies with companies in the United States (US), based on a balanced sample of 358 European companies (excluding United Kingdom (UK) companies, because they were subject to additional regulations that came into effect around the same time) and 470 US companies from 2009 to 2020. We find that European companies' performance has not improved substantially since the Directive came into effect in 2017, nor have they improved compared to US companies. Thus, the evidence suggests that the Directive has not improved European companies’ social and environmental performance. Our study provides broad-based evidence of the (in)effectiveness of mandating corporate social and environmental disclosures to enhance performance. Our findings will be of interest to regulators considering disclosure mandates, as well as stakeholders and investors interested in enhancing social and environmental performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101437"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890838924002014/pdfft?md5=aa9dcbc7d366f3f39d0f8f308f50a2a2&pid=1-s2.0-S0890838924002014-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneity in the integration of ESG measures in executive compensation: Determinants, contracting details and outcomes","authors":"Shilin Hou , Jianfeng Shen , Chuan Yu , Shan Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Corporate social responsibility (CSR) contracting incorporates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) related measures in executive compensation plans. Current research on this practice is limited to a US setting, despite global adoption. We investigate heterogeneity in CSR contracting using data from 59 countries between 2002 and 2019. We find that besides firm-level past ESG performance and the industry-level adoption rate, country-level ESG regulations have significant explanatory power in firms’ tendencies to adopt CSR contracting. Hand-collected data reveal significant cross-country differences in CSR contracting details. Finally, CSR contracting is positively associated with subsequent financial performance only in countries with more stringent ESG regulations and stronger legal enforcement. In contrast, CSR contracting is associated with subsequent ESG performance regardless of country-level factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101440"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089083892400204X/pdfft?md5=6595ae5f659b67bb609a312c5d3ffc14&pid=1-s2.0-S089083892400204X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141615184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging the credit gap: The influence of regional bank structure on the expansion of peer-to-peer lending","authors":"Nourhan Eid , Junhong Yang , Meryem Duygun","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101448","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101448","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the extent to which the regional credit market structures, characterized by the presence and lending capacity of traditional banks, shape the growth of online lending marketplaces using peer-to-peer (P2P) lending data. Using an instrumental variables (IV) approach, our study suggests that areas underserved by traditional banks witness more significant growth in P2P lending. This impact is more pronounced in regions with a lower presence of small bank outreach. Furthermore, we find that an increase in P2P lending is associated with a reduced risk of borrower default. Our findings also show that the expansion of online lending marketplaces positively impacts borrowers’ financial well-being by improving their credit scores.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101448"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890838924002129/pdfft?md5=7cddf0669daf895d5b826fd7029eae29&pid=1-s2.0-S0890838924002129-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manager sentiment, deal characteristics, and takeover performance","authors":"Suwei An , Yi Liu , Xiaofen Tan , Kai Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Various studies analyze the driving forces behind takeover activities, including investor sentiment, liquidity, and fundamental shocks. In this study, we examine how manager sentiment influences takeover characteristics and long-term performance using textual analysis of data in 10-K and 10-Q filings. Our findings identify that manager sentiment has strong positive predictive power for takeover activities, and high (positive) manager sentiment decreases the long-term performance of takeover deals. Moreover, we show that high-sentiment managers tend to undertake large deals, decrease all-stock transactions, acquire hard-to-value targets, and provide high target valuations, suggesting over-investment for underperforming high-sentiment deals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101374"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140276566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Penelope A.L. Tuck , Dominic de Cogan , Rodrigo Ormeño-Pérez
{"title":"Devolution, counter-conduct and territoriality: The case of Tax Business Rates in the United Kingdom","authors":"Penelope A.L. Tuck , Dominic de Cogan , Rodrigo Ormeño-Pérez","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101406","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Business Rates (BR) are key to the interaction between national, devolved, regional and local institutions of government in the UK. A liability to the tax can make the difference between the life and death of a business, and the design and implementation of business rates interacts with areas of policy concern as disparate as devolution, planning, charity regulation and digitalisation. We examine how BR affect political struggles between the devolved governments and the UK government using a governmentality approach focused on counter conduct, extending the scant literature on this type of taxation. Our theoretical contribution is to analyse how resistance, represented by the Foucauldian concept of counter conduct, manifests within the complex and understudied context of BR. In particular, we show that counter conduct has spatial and territorial elements which have the potential to destabilise the entire business rates programme and ought to be taken much more seriously.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101406"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089083892400163X/pdfft?md5=9a6a8ff49f448165d1f4d6363a2eecda&pid=1-s2.0-S089083892400163X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141439802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anthony Kyiu , Bernard Tawiah , Kwabena Antwi Boasiako , Sylvester Adasi Manu
{"title":"Third-party auditor liability risk and trade credit policies","authors":"Anthony Kyiu , Bernard Tawiah , Kwabena Antwi Boasiako , Sylvester Adasi Manu","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101454","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the effect of Third-Party Auditor Liability (TPAL) risk on firms' trade credit policies. Exploiting the staggered state-level changes to TPAL in the US as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that firms in states with a higher risk of TPAL increase their use of trade credit. This relationship is more pronounced for firms with a more enhanced information environment, those with greater financial constraints, and those whose auditors are more exposed to litigation risk. Overall, our findings provide evidence of how TPAL affects firms’ short-term financing needs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101454"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089083892400218X/pdfft?md5=ec945019dfccd526e008507c980584e8&pid=1-s2.0-S089083892400218X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141910570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobias Johansson-Berg , Gustav Johed , Thomas Carrington
{"title":"On the role and effects of supervisor feedback sign in auditing: Evidence from a cohort of early career auditors.","authors":"Tobias Johansson-Berg , Gustav Johed , Thomas Carrington","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101371","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101371","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Supervisor feedback is essential for training and socialising early career auditors. One fundamental aspect and choice of a supervisor's feedback practice and style is whether to focus on encouraging good or discouraging poor performance. We acknowledge that early career auditors likely receive feedback on both good and poor performance in ongoing and extended feedback relationships with their closest supervisor. A work–life reality that implies that the effects of supervisors' inclinations towards a specific performance feedback sign must be assessed within a frame in which they coexist to varying degrees. We generate hypotheses on how the feedback sign from the closest supervisor affects early career auditors' underreporting of time and intrinsic work motivation, which are two matters related to audit quality. We found that supervisor feedback on negative performance was associated with increased underreporting of time and decreased intrinsic motivation. Feedback on positive performance lessens underreporting of time and supports the development of intrinsic motivation. In summary, our results support emphasising the type of performance for which supervisors choose to provide feedback.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101371"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890838924001100/pdfft?md5=c3f22b47a573eac7fa71607804daf4e3&pid=1-s2.0-S0890838924001100-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140280463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management control systems, business financial literacy and financial leverage in business-incubated start-ups","authors":"Roberto Graña-Alvarez , Jacobo Gomez-Conde , Ernesto Lopez-Valeiras , Miguel González-Loureiro","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101427","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2024.101427","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurs manage the capital structure of their start-ups to align the assumption of financial risk with their risk appetite. We focus on the ways in which management control systems (MCS), categorized as financial and non-financial MCS, serve as determinants of financial leverage in start-ups. Of particular interest is the influence of entrepreneurs' financial literacy on this relationship. We test these associations on a sample of business-incubated start-ups by combining survey and archival data. Our results show that financial MCS are negatively associated with financial leverage, unlike non-financial MCS, which are positively related. Entrepreneurs’ financial literacy mitigates the impact of these associations. Overall, our aim is to shed light on how start-ups navigate the trade-off between taking risks and controlling their operations. In addition, we add to the growing literature on the adjustment of financial leverage and the role of MCS and financial literacy in managing such leverage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101427"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890838924001914/pdfft?md5=00735c234becfff6ac08eb6b0341d057&pid=1-s2.0-S0890838924001914-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141410525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giovanni Cardillo , Enrico Onali , Salvatore Perdichizzi
{"title":"Investor behavior around targeted liquidity announcements","authors":"Giovanni Cardillo , Enrico Onali , Salvatore Perdichizzi","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2023.101275","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bar.2023.101275","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We exploit announcements related to targeted longer-term financing operations (TLTROs) as exogenous shocks in investor perceptions to test recent theories on bank funding liquidity (Ahnert et al., 2019; Liu, 2015). We find that banks with high derivative holdings and more exposed to sovereign credit risk respond better to the announcements, consistent with the view that lower funding costs benefit banks with higher asset encumbrance and located in more vulnerable Eurozone countries. The TLTRO announcements also elicit reductions in short positions on bank stocks relative to stocks of non-financial corporations without impairing their market liquidity. Robustness tests rule out that our results are driven by confounding events and anticipation effects. Placebo tests confirm that the TLTRO announcements are driving the estimated price reactions and changes in short positions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47996,"journal":{"name":"British Accounting Review","volume":"56 6","pages":"Article 101275"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135763398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}