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We investigate the impact of reporting regulation on corporate innovation. Exploiting thresholds in Europe's regulation and a major enforcement reform in Germany, we find that forcing firms to publicly disclose their financial statements discourages innovative activities. Our evidence suggests...
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We investigate the impact of reporting regulation on corporate innovation. Exploiting thresholds in Europe's regulation and a major enforcement reform in Germany, we find that forcing firms to publicly disclose their financial statements discourages innovative activities. Our evidence suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705621
The paper studies the decision of firms to expense or capitalize R&D. In a two-period model, a monopolist decides on how much to invest in R&D and how much of that investment to capitalize, and then on each period's output. It is found that the firm has an incentive to mismatch the benefits and...
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This research is concerned with the diffusion of management accounting innovations viewed as a process of actor-network building and translation. The aim is to better understand the nature of accounting change. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we analyze two innovations that have had different...
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This paper empirically examines the impacts and underlying mechanisms of a digital strategy, along with its four … impacts. The findings reveal that a digital strategy exerts a significant and positive influence on firm innovation investment …. Furthermore, the mechanism through which this impact occurs is elucidated: digital strategy fosters company innovation investment …
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This study investigates the impact of labor outsourcing on innovation, using manually collected data from Chinese A-share listed companies from 2012 to 2022. The results indicate that labor outsourcing significantly enhances firms' innovation level. This relationship is primarily driven by...
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Forensic Services werden unter diesem Label in Deutschland seit gut 10 Jahren von vielen großen Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaften angeboten. Da die Dienstleistungen und Methoden einzeln gesehen nicht grundlegend neu sind, stellt sich die Frage, mit welchen Vorteilen das Angebot für Anbieter...
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This paper examines how firms’ R&D disclosures are associated with collaborative innovation, measured by co-patenting intensity. Compared to solo patents, co-patents are more uncertain and face a greater risk of proprietary information leakage. We find that firms with more co-patents tend to...
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Successful innovations could induce more disclosure if the information asymmetry between the firm and its investors about post-innovation outcomes leads investors to demand more information. However, such innovations also likely entail greater proprietary cost concerns, which deter disclosure....
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We investigate the impact of accounting discretion on managers' incentives to invest in innovative projects. Using a theoretical model in which a manager chooses between an innovative and a conventional project, we show that allowing accounting discretion incentivizes the manager to invest in...
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