Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether corporate social media information helps improve analysts’ forecast accuracy. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses hand-collected information on S&P 500 firms’ official Facebook pages and uses posts and reactions to such posts...

Purpose: The recent economic and political focus on rising income inequality and the extent of government intervention into pay policies has renewed the interest in executive compensation. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of changing regulatory landscapes on executive pay and...

This study reviews and synthesizes the contemporary business literature that focuses on the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to enhance firm value. The main objective of this review is to proffer a precise understanding of what has already been investigated and the findings of those...

This study was conducted to analyze the short and long run price performance of IPOs in Bangladesh. Based on a sample of 163 IPOs that were issued during the period between 1992 and 2006, this study documents short run out-performance and long run underperformance of IPOs in the secondary...

This study investigates whether corporate governance can mitigate real earnings management. In recent years, firms have been switching from accrual based to real earnings management and the incidence of real earnings management is also increasing. The role of corporate governance to reduce...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is enacted to strengthen corporate governance practices by enhancing the power of audit committee. After 2002, audit committee has received increasing emphasis in accounting research. The objective of this study is to review the growing volume of audit committee...

This paper examines how corporate governance is practiced through ownership structure and how firm's performance as well as its dividend payout policy is influenced by different ownership pattern. In doing so, this paper attempts to investigate the pattern of ownership mix and ownership...