Erratum: Corporate life cycle and dividend payout: A panel data analysis of companies in an emerging market

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Sentiments–Risk Relationship across the Corporate Life Cycle: Evidence from an Emerging Market

The influence of market sentiments on the bankruptcy risk propensity of firms has been extensively explored in the literature. However, less attention has been paid to whether the corporate life cycle plays any role in this nexus. The purpose of this research is to unveil how the corporate bankruptcy risk propensity responds to market sentiments, and whether this sentiments–risk relationship varies over different stages of the corporate life cycle. Using a sample of 301 Pakistani non-financial listed firms for 2005–2014, we employ two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) regression estimation to address the issue of endogeneity. Empirical evidence reveals that managers tend to escalate a firm’s bankruptcy risk during high market sentiments. Further analysis indicates that during the period of positive market sentiments, introduction stage firms prefer to assume the highest bankruptcy risk followed by decline and growth firms, while mature firms continue to be risk-averse. This research contributes to the corporate finance literature by suggesting that managerial risk-taking is influenced by market sentiments and corporate managers show a different attitude towards risk at different stages of the corporate life cycle. Therefore, to ensure enterprise sustainability, capital market regulators should have a robust risk management framework in place to discipline the excessive risk-taking by firm managers over different stages of the corporate life cycle. Moreover, investors and creditors shall take into consideration the respective life cycle stage of the firm to minimize the risk exposure of their investment portfolios. Our results are robust to alternate econometric specifications and alternate variable specifications.

Does the life cycle affect earnings management and bankruptcy?

Research background: Deteriorating economic conditions and a negative outlook increase the pressure on financial management and the need to show high financial performance. According to Positive Accounting Theory, the growing risk of bankruptcy is associated with the phenomenon of earnings management. Bankruptcy risk and the quality of reported profits, along with other aspects of financial performance, vary throughout the company's life cycle. Nevertheless, these factors or their interactions are investigated only to a very small extent. Purpose of the article: The aim of this study is to clarify the impact of corporate life cycle and bankruptcy on earnings management, in order to describe behaviour of companies at different stages of corporate life cycle. Methods: A hierarchical mixed model with a random time and industry effect was chosen as appropriate because it allows the investigation of multilevel data that is not independent. The sample covers the financial indicators of more than 33,000 Central European companies from 2015?2019. The non-sequential Dickinson model, company age, and three models of accrual earnings management were used as proxies for the company's life cycle and quality of reported profit. Findings & value added: Earnings management and bankruptcy risk have a U-shape, indicating that financially distressed firms reduce reported accounting profit at the Introduction, Decline and, to a lesser extent, at the Growth stage. Slovak and Czech companies manipulate profits to a similar extent, Hungarian companies increase accounting profit to a greatest extent than the surveyed countries by controlling bankruptcy ? life cycle effect; however, the variability of accounting manipulations across industries has not been demonstrated. These findings imply that start-ups and declining businesses provide crooked financial statements to obtain more favourable debt covenants, and estimating discretionary accruals using life-cycle subsamples can improve the predictive power of accrual earnings management models.

Pengaruh Thin Capitalization dan Karakter Eksekutif Dengan Kepemilikan Institusional Sebagai Variabel Moderasi Terhadap Penghindaran Pajak dalam Perspektif Corporate Life Cycle

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh thin capitalization dan karakter eksekutif terhadap penghindaran pajak dalam perspektif corporate life cycle. Penelitian ini juga menguji apakah kepemilikan institusional dapat memperkuat atau memperlemah pengaruh thin capitalization dan karakter eksekutif terhadap penghindaran pajak.Penelitian ini menggunakan data sekuder dengan melihat laporan keuangan perusahaan syariah yang terdaftar di Jakarta Islamic Index 70 (JII70) selama periode 2018-2019. Sampel tersebut diseleksi menggunakan metode purposive sampling sehingga diperoleh sebanyak 75 sampel yang kemudian dikelompokkan berdasarkan corporate life cycle. Metode analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Moderated Regression Analysis dengan menggunakan alat analisis data SPSS 25.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pada tahap mature thin capitalization berpengaruh terhadap penghindaran pajak, sementara karakter eksekutif tidak berpengaruh terhadap penghindaran pajak. Serta kepemilikan institusional merupakan variable pemoderasi antara thin capitalization dengan penghindaran pajak. Sedangkan pada tahap decline hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa karakter eksekutif berpengaruh terhadap penghindaran pajak, sementara thin capitalization tidak berpengaruh terhadap penghindaran pajak. Serta kepemilikan institusional merupakan variable pemoderasi antara karakter eksekutif dengan penghindaran pajak.

The Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on New Product Creativity, Competitive Advantage and New Product Performance in SMEs: The Moderating Role of Corporate Life Cycle

The current study aims to empirically examine the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on new product creativity, competitive advantage, and new product performance. Data are collected from 424 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in South Korea. The suggested hypotheses are tested through the structural equation modeling technique. The analysis outcome shows that entrepreneurial orientation has a significant positive effect on both new product (NP) novelty and new product meaningfulness. The study further finds that both new product novelty and meaningfulness have significant positive impacts on competitive advantage, respectively, while the latter has a significant positive effect on new product performance. Similarly, the study finds that corporate life cycle significantly moderates the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and new product meaningfulness. The study offers practical and theoretical insights into understanding entrepreneurship dynamics, new product creativity, and new product performance. The research shows that SME managers must adopt an entrepreneurial orientation at an early stage in the life cycle.