CEO Accountability for Corporate Fraud: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

We use institutional-related theories and a unique natural experiment that enables an exogenous test of the influence of controlling shareholders on managerial accountability to corporate fraud. In China, prior to the Split Share Structure Reform (SSSR), state shareholders held restricted shares tha...

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Authors: Chen, Jiandong (Author) ; Cumming, Douglas (Author) ; Hou, Wenxuan (Author) ; Lee, Edward (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2016
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2016, 卷: 138, 發布: 4, Pages: 787-806
Further subjects:B Ownership
B CEO turnover
B China
B Corporate fraud
B Split Share Structure Reform
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總結:We use institutional-related theories and a unique natural experiment that enables an exogenous test of the influence of controlling shareholders on managerial accountability to corporate fraud. In China, prior to the Split Share Structure Reform (SSSR), state shareholders held restricted shares that could not be traded. This restriction mitigated state-owned enterprise controlling shareholders’ incentives to monitor managers. The data examined show the SSSR strengthens incentives of state-owned enterprise controlling shareholders to replace fraudulent management. Our findings support the view that economic incentives are important to promote corporate governance and deter fraud.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2467-2