Huang, Xin; Li, Wanrong; Cheng, Chen; Huang, Hao; Liu, … - 2025
We examine the impact of family firms’ historical ownership on corporate fraud. Our results show that restructured … family firms from state-owned enterprises are more likely to violate and commit more fraud than entrepreneurial family firms …. Therefore, restructured family firms have a stronger incentive to conceal these problems through corporate fraud. Furthermore …