Srivastava, Anup; Sunder, Shyam V.; Tse, Senyo - In: China journal of accounting research : CJAR 8 (2015) 3, pp. 147-167
Ideally, firms should discontinue projects that become unprofitable. Managers, however, continue to operate such projects because of their limited employment horizons and empire-building motivations (Jensen, 1986; Ball, 2001). Prior studies suggest that timely loss recognition in accounting earnings...
