Junru Zhang, Yuan George Shan, Nirosha Dilhani Kapu Arachchilage
{"title":"Do students have satisfying educational experiences at sustainable universities? Evidence from Australian universities","authors":"Junru Zhang, Yuan George Shan, Nirosha Dilhani Kapu Arachchilage","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101649","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on a sample of Australian universities from 2012 to 2018, we investigate the association between the extent of university sustainability disclosure and student satisfaction. University sustainability disclosures are critical for communicating with key stakeholders when seeking resources, thereby facilitating student satisfaction. Using hand-collected data from university annual reports and the Student Experience Survey, we find that the extent of university sustainability disclosure is positively associated with student satisfaction in both short and long terms. Our channel analysis suggests that sustainability disclosures help universities attract increased government funding and student income. Moreover, universities with a greater extent of sustainability disclosure offer better employee benefits and are more likely to invest in student facilities, engagement and activities. In cross-sectional tests, we find that the effect of sustainability disclosures is contingent on public monitoring, organisational culture and managerial environmental awareness. We also show that sustainability disclosures can help universities mitigate the adverse effects of reputational risks and promote university rankings through enhanced student satisfaction. Our findings remain robust to an array of endogeneity tests. The findings of this study provide important implications for policymakers and regulators, sustainability reporting standard setters and university management.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901714","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}
Linxi Shi, Pingli Li, Krishanthi Vithana, Bai Xue, Mahmoud Al-Sayed
{"title":"Hospital Management Accounting Systems: Evolving roles, actors, and interactions","authors":"Linxi Shi, Pingli Li, Krishanthi Vithana, Bai Xue, Mahmoud Al-Sayed","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101666","url":null,"abstract":"Seeking to offer an integrated understanding of Hospital Management Accounting Systems (HMAS) dynamics—through a synthesis of 196 studies on management accounting in public healthcare since 1980—we provide critical insights into HMAS roles—diagnostic, interactive, culture shaping, political, and symbolic—and their interconnections, shedding light on their (in)effectiveness in relation to relevant actors. The review highlights that different actors contribute significantly to the diverse roles of HMAS, while these roles—if functioning as mechanisms for meaningful change—in turn, impact their activities, managerial awareness, and power relationships. While being criticised for unintentionally intensifying value conflicts, HMAS changes reportedly have long-term impact on shaping organisational culture and reconciling values within broader public management transformations. It underscores the need for the longitudinal perspectives to better capture a holistic insight of the evolving roles and effectiveness of HMAS in empirical research. In this regard, the analytical framework we employed for examining the (in)effectiveness of HMAS and the underlying reasons through actors, roles, and interactions could provide a foundation for future empirical studies. Practically, this review advocates for greater involvement of medical professionals and patients in HMAS, promoting changes that balance flexibility with accountability while respecting medical professionals' autonomy through an interactive approach.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143930701","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":"Long-run IPO performance and the role of venture capital","authors":"Anup Basnet, Magnus Blomkvist, Douglas Cumming","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101648","url":null,"abstract":"Prior literature (e.g., Brav & Gompers, 1997) establishes that the average VC-backed IPO does not outperform return based benchmarks. In this paper, we show, by accounting for VC holdings, that the average VC-backed IPO exhibits positive alphas (1.22pp) as long as the VC remains invested. The significant overperformance can be fully explained by active VC monitoring efforts, which diminishes following the VC's exit. Alternative explanations such as market timing, signaling, and portfolio company selection cannot explain the return patterns.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143873110","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}
James J. Chrisman, Hanging “Chevy” Fang, Craig Wilson, Zhenyu Wu
{"title":"Bridging accounting and finance with entrepreneurship: Business and social perspectives","authors":"James J. Chrisman, Hanging “Chevy” Fang, Craig Wilson, Zhenyu Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101644","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship is an engine of economic growth and development in societies around the world. There are many accounting and finance issues faced by entrepreneurial firms related to financing, ownership structure, and corporate governance. Likewise, a growing body of literature in accounting and finance that highlights the importance of entrepreneurship has emerged in recent years. In this special issue, we use an intersectional approach to research in these areas in order to explore seemingly disparate fields and investigate points of connection, as well as divergence. This special issue includes seven articles organized into three categories representing financing, innovation, and corporate governance. Our aim is to improve the understanding of the relations between accounting, finance, and entrepreneurship from both business and social perspectives.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"2675 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143849594","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":"Do generalist CEOs reduce corporate default risk?","authors":"Md Safiullah, Ghasan A. Baghdadi, Marc Goergen","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101646","url":null,"abstract":"We examine whether the general managerial skills of chief executive officers (CEOs) affect corporate default risk. Employing a large panel of data on US firms, we find that generalist CEOs help reduce default risk. This result is robust to using different fixed effects (i.e., firm, CEO, and industry fixed effects), propensity score matching, and a difference-in-differences analysis to address endogeneity concerns. Furthermore, a channel analysis unveils that generalist CEOs curb corporate default risk by lowering the volatility of the return on assets (ROA) and that of the stock return.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820262","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":"Vertical integration, supply chain disruptions, and corporate yield spreads","authors":"Yifei Li, Anni Wang, Qun Wu, Zejiang Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101639","url":null,"abstract":"Vertical integration can lower transaction costs and enhance a firm’s control over its supply chain, thereby mitigating supply chain risk and leading to lower yield spreads. However, it may also lead to asset specificity, which can reduce the liquidation value of assets and increase investment uncertainty, potentially resulting in higher yield spreads. We find that firms with greater vertical integration exhibit lower bond yield spreads. This effect is more pronounced for companies facing elevated supply chain risk, supporting the supply chain risk channel. Amid global supply chain disruptions such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the U.S.-China trade war, vertical integration takes on an even more important role in reducing credit spreads.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820263","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}
Weiwei Guo, Hossein Jahanshahloo, Laima Spokeviciute, Qingwei Wang
{"title":"The dual impact of on-chain and off-chain factors on Bitcoin market efficiency","authors":"Weiwei Guo, Hossein Jahanshahloo, Laima Spokeviciute, Qingwei Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101641","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how on-chain factors (number of active wallets, transaction fees, and transaction volume) and off-chain factors (liquidity and investor attention) impact Bitcoin market efficiency from April 2014 to April 2022. We identify three periods in Bitcoin’s market development: development, growth, and additional development stage. We propose three hypotheses: (1) increased investor attention enhances market efficiency, (2) a rise in active users improves efficiency directly and through liquidity and investor attention, and (3) higher transaction fees and on-chain volume positively impact efficiency directly and indirectly. Our findings support these hypotheses during Bitcoin’s development and growth periods. However, in the additional development stage, the total effect of active users, transaction fees, and transaction volume becomes negative when considering mediating effects, and largely insignificant when focusing on direct effects. Additionally, we find increased netflow between whales and exchanges, a proxy for institutional activity, improves efficiency. We conclude that as Bitcoin’s market develops, factors such as changing user composition and increased regulatory scrutiny alter the dynamics of on-chain factors and their influence on market efficiency.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820264","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":"Linkage between strategy and financial performance disclosure in annual reports: A new reporting path for organizational learning","authors":"Vasiliki Athanasakou, Abdlmutaleb Boshanna","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101643","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the reporting practice of linkage between strategy disclosures (management discussion of firm strategy and the business model) and financial performance disclosures in annual reports as a path for organizational learning. For identification, we use the UK Company Law Amendment mandating a Strategic Report as a separate section of the annual report so that strategy disclosures provide sufficient context for financial statements. We confirm that the linkage between strategy and performance disclosures in annual reports increases incrementally after the amendment for firms that are more strongly affected by the Company Law Amendment. For these firms, we document an incremental rise in measures associated with organizational learning (e.g., measures of organizational changes and workforce engagement). Our study has important policy implications for the structure of textual disclosure in annual reports.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820268","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}
Cephas Simon Peter Dak-Adzaklo, Adelaide Dak-Adzaklo
{"title":"The effect of cross-border regulatory cooperation on investment efficiency","authors":"Cephas Simon Peter Dak-Adzaklo, Adelaide Dak-Adzaklo","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101638","url":null,"abstract":"The signing of the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU) has strengthened the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) cross-border enforcement program over US-listed foreign firms through better cooperation with foreign securities regulators. Using the MMoU as a natural experiment, we examine the effect of enhanced SEC regulatory oversight on investment efficiency of US-listed foreign firms. We find that enhanced SEC regulatory oversight in the post-MMoU regime increases investment efficiency. This finding is robust to an array of sensitivity tests, including those that account for endogeneity. Cross-sectional analyses show that the effect is more pronounced for firms from countries with weaker institutions and higher levels of societal secrecy. Additional analyses reveal that the MMoU influences investment efficiency through market discipline and financing channels. These findings have important implications for regulators, policymakers, and corporate stakeholders. More importantly, by documenting the causal positive impact of the MMoU on investment efficiency, this study provides information to inform and refine the business case for securities regulators' global policy coordination efforts.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143736553","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":"Why so many coins? Examining the demand for privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies","authors":"Gbenga Ibikunle, Vito Mollica, Qiao Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101637","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the impact of anonymity and privacy-preservation on cryptocurrency use. We find that privacy coins, which deploy advanced privacy-preserving technologies to enhance trader anonymity, experience a relative increase in usage compared to non-privacy coins following regulatory interventions aimed at countering illegal activities in cryptocurrency trading and use. However, the adoption of privacy coins decreases relative to non-privacy coins after the introduction of regulations restricting the use of privacy-preserving protocols. These findings underscore the significance of privacy as a driving factor in cryptocurrency adoption.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143736554","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}