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The role of science-based targets on carbon mitigation: Addressing the tension between net zero anxiety and economic growth 以科学为基础的碳减排目标的作用:解决净零焦虑与经济增长之间的矛盾
Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101491
Jingduan Li, Xuhui Peng, Huan Zhang
Despite the growing importance of science-based targets (SBTs), our knowledge of their impact on corporate decarbonisation commitment is extremely limited due to inadequate research. To address this gap, we investigate the relationship between SBTs and corporate carbon reduction. Our empirical results reveal the following insights: First, the adoption of an SBT leads to significant subsequent carbon reduction in our sample companies. Second, decarbonisation does not occur until SBTs have been adopted for several years. Third, our findings show that the adoption of SBTs does not harm these companies’ profitability. Overall, our results suggest that SBTs are long-term investments that do not generate immediate but long-term and more sustainable outcomes. In sum, SBTs seem to be a strategy that can help management achieve a win-win situation: achieving a carbon reduction target without reducing economic growth. This justifies the need to study SBTs in future research in the field of carbon-accounting.
尽管以科学为基础的目标(SBTs)日益重要,但由于研究不足,我们对其对企业去碳化承诺的影响的了解极为有限。为了弥补这一不足,我们研究了科学目标与企业碳减排之间的关系。我们的实证结果揭示了以下几点:首先,在我们的样本公司中,采用 SBT 会导致显著的后续碳减排。其次,在采用 SBT 几年后才会出现碳减排。第三,我们的研究结果表明,采用 SBT 不会损害这些公司的盈利能力。总之,我们的研究结果表明,SBT 是一种长期投资,它不会产生立竿见影的效果,而是会产生长期的、更可持续的效果。总之,SBT 似乎是一种可以帮助管理层实现双赢的战略:在不降低经济增长的情况下实现碳减排目标。这就证明了在未来碳会计领域的研究中研究 SBT 的必要性。
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Sustainable development goals, accounting practices and public financial management: A pre and post COVID-19 assessment 可持续发展目标、会计实务和公共财政管理:COVID-19 前后评估
Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101466
Franklin Nakpodia, Rilwan Sakariyahu, Temitope Fagbemi, Rasheed Adigun, Oluwatoyin Dosumu
Previous studies have highlighted the importance of policy interventions in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, there is limited understanding within accounting literature about strategies to enhance sustainable development initiatives and address the challenges faced in varieties of capitalism. This study investigates the influence of accounting practices and public financial management on SDG attainment, focusing on their interactions. Drawing on a global dataset from 96 countries, we find that both accounting practices and public financial management positively impact human development and environmental sustainability, specifically in relation to SDGs 3, 7, and 13. Additionally, our study uncovers significant differences in these impacts before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings, which are robust to endogeneity and heterogeneity tests, suggest that policymakers should prioritise the enhancement of accounting practices and public financial management to achieve the SDGs.
以往的研究强调了政策干预对实现可持续发展目标(SDGs)的重要性。然而,在会计文献中,人们对加强可持续发展倡议和应对各种资本主义所面临的挑战的战略了解有限。本研究调查了会计实务和公共财政管理对实现可持续发展目标的影响,重点关注它们之间的相互作用。利用来自 96 个国家的全球数据集,我们发现会计实务和公共财政管理都会对人类发展和环境可持续性产生积极影响,特别是在可持续发展目标 3、7 和 13 方面。此外,我们的研究还发现,在 COVID-19 大流行之前和期间,这些影响存在显著差异。我们的研究结果经得起内生性和异质性检验,表明决策者应优先考虑加强会计实务和公共财政管理,以实现可持续发展目标。
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Uncovering the intensity of climate risk and opportunity: Awareness and effectiveness 揭示气候风险和机遇的强度:认识和有效性
Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101469
Hanlu Fan, Keyi Zhao
This paper examines the effect of awareness regarding climate change risks and opportunities on the proactive carbon management systems of U.S. S&P 500 companies. We develop our hypotheses based on institutional theory, stakeholder theory, and prospect theory. Our findings indicate a significant positive association between our self-constructed measurement of company risk and opportunity awareness and carbon management practices. We observe that financially constrained firms exhibit a lesser response to both climate change risk and opportunity awareness. Additionally, we note that firms with low profitability are more responsive to climate change risks, whereas we found no evidence linking climate change opportunity awareness to carbon management systems, consistent with prospect theory. Finally, we investigate the impact of carbon management systems on carbon reduction performance to examine the effectiveness of such awareness. In summary, this study provides the first evidence of how awareness of climate risk and opportunity influences corporate carbon management practices in a U.S. setting. Our findings imply that awareness serves as the initial step in prompting positive actions to manage risks and capitalize on opportunities. These results offer novel insights and information relevant to the recent policy initiative aimed at transitioning climate risk disclosure from voluntary to mandatory.
本文研究了气候变化风险和机遇意识对美国标准普尔 500 指数公司主动碳管理系统的影响。我们根据制度理论、利益相关者理论和前景理论提出了假设。我们的研究结果表明,我们自建的公司风险和机遇意识衡量标准与碳管理实践之间存在明显的正相关关系。我们发现,资金紧张的企业对气候变化风险和机遇意识的反应较小。此外,我们还注意到,利润率低的公司对气候变化风险的反应更强烈,而我们没有发现任何证据表明气候变化机遇意识与碳管理系统之间存在联系,这与前景理论是一致的。最后,我们调查了碳管理系统对碳减排绩效的影响,以检验这种意识的有效性。总之,本研究首次提供了在美国环境下气候风险和机遇意识如何影响企业碳管理实践的证据。我们的研究结果表明,意识是促使企业采取积极行动管理风险和利用机遇的第一步。这些结果为最近旨在将气候风险披露从自愿过渡到强制的政策倡议提供了新的见解和相关信息。
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Substitutes or complements? Use of trade credit and bank credit by family SMEs 替代还是互补?家庭中小企业使用贸易信贷和银行信贷的情况
Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101464
Xianzhe Jin, Jialong Li, Yefeng Wang, Yuan Wang
This research examines the intricate relationship between trade and bank credit, with a specific focus on family and nonfamily small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our analysis of a sample of 3690 US SMEs reveals a distinctive pattern: Trade credit and bank credit act as substitutes for each other for family firms, but they serve as complements to each other for nonfamily firms. Furthermore, our findings highlight that this distinctive pattern is particularly pronounced in the contexts of low-performing SMEs and smaller SMEs. The results provide a nuanced understanding of the relationship between trade and bank credit and underscore the importance of considering the impact of a governance structure on an SME's financing behaviors.
本研究探讨了贸易与银行信贷之间错综复杂的关系,重点关注家族和非家族中小型企业(SMEs)。我们对 3690 家美国中小企业的样本进行了分析,发现了一种独特的模式:对于家族企业来说,贸易信贷和银行信贷是相互替代的,但对于非家族企业来说,它们是相互补充的。此外,我们的研究结果还强调,这种独特的模式在低绩效中小企业和规模较小的中小企业中尤为明显。这些结果提供了对贸易与银行信贷之间关系的细微理解,并强调了考虑治理结构对中小企业融资行为影响的重要性。
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Carbon accounting for the translation of net-zero targets into business operations 将净零目标转化为业务运营的碳核算
Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101456
Elena Carrión, Carlos Larrinaga, Deborah Rigling Gallagher
This paper explores the translation of the global decarbonization goal into net-zero organizational targets. Building on the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework developed by Ostrom and focusing on the case of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), we study how accounting mediates in this translation. The study consists of an in-depth examination of SBTi's publicly available sources, which helped us identify and structure the subsequent analysis around four analytical dimensions: timeframe, target boundary, methods, and monitoring mechanisms. The findings of our analysis suggest that different points of friction are challenging the mediation of accounting and hindering the definition of net-zero targets and, therefore, corporate decision-making in response to climate urgency. The implications of our case spill over into recent sustainability standards, which provide a lower level of granularity in defining the technical accounting aspects of net-zero targets.
本文探讨了如何将全球去碳化目标转化为净零组织目标。在奥斯特罗姆提出的制度分析与发展(IAD)框架基础上,我们以基于科学的目标倡议(SBTi)为案例,研究了会计在这一转化过程中的中介作用。这项研究包括对 SBTi 的公开资料来源进行深入研究,这有助于我们确定并围绕四个分析维度进行后续分析:时间框架、目标边界、方法和监督机制。我们的分析结果表明,不同的摩擦点正在对会计的中介作用提出挑战,并阻碍了净零目标的定义,从而阻碍了企业应对气候紧迫性的决策。我们的案例对最近的可持续发展标准也有影响,这些标准在界定净零目标的技术核算方面提供了较低的精细度。
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Digitalization and management accountants’ role conflict and ambiguity: A double-edged sword for the profession 数字化与管理会计师的角色冲突和模糊性:行业的双刃剑
Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101460
Alexander C.A. van Slooten, Paula M.G. Dirks, Sebastian Firk
This study investigates the relationship between the anticipated digitalization of the finance and control function and management accountants' (MAs') role conflict and ambiguity. Drawing on role theory, we argue that digitalization is associated with increases in MAs' role conflict and ambiguity because digitalization leads to adaptations in the established role templates of MAs and also introduces new templates for the digital age. We further argue that digitalization is associated with a stronger (weaker) increase in role conflict and ambiguity the more MAs have a watchdog (business partner) orientation. The reason is that the role templates for the digital age are less coherent and clear for watchdog-oriented MAs than for their business partner counterparts. We test our predictions using survey data from 242 MAs in Dutch for-profit firms. While we do not find that digitalization is associated with MAs’ role conflict and ambiguity per se, it is associated with more (less) role ambiguity and conflict for MAs with a relatively stronger watchdog (business partner) orientation. Digitalization may thus act as a double-edged sword for the management accounting profession. MAs focusing on the watchdog role may struggle in the digital age, while their business partner counterparts are set to benefit from digitalization.
本研究探讨了财务与控制职能的预期数字化与管理会计师(MAs)的角色冲突和模糊性之间的关系。根据角色理论,我们认为数字化与管理会计师角色冲突和模糊性的增加有关,因为数字化会导致管理会计师既有角色模板的调整,也会为数字化时代引入新的模板。我们进一步认为,数字化越是倾向于监督者(业务伙伴)的管理者,其角色冲突和模糊性的增加就越强(越弱)。原因在于,与业务合作伙伴相比,以监督者为导向的管理者在数字化时代的角色模板不够连贯和清晰。我们使用荷兰营利性企业 242 名管理咨询师的调查数据来验证我们的预测。虽然我们没有发现数字化与管理咨询师的角色冲突和模糊性本身有关,但对于看门狗(业务伙伴)导向相对较强的管理咨询师来说,数字化与更多的(较少的)角色模糊性和冲突有关。因此,数字化对管理会计行业来说可能是一把双刃剑。侧重于监督者角色的管理会计师可能会在数字化时代陷入困境,而他们的业务伙伴同行则会从数字化中受益。
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Digitalization tensions in the management accounting profession: Boundary work responses and their consequences 管理会计行业的数字化紧张局势:边界工作对策及其后果
Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101455
Claudio de Araujo Wanderley, Kate E. Horton
This study examines senior finance professionals' experiences and responses to digitalization tensions by applying a boundary-work theoretical lens. Based on interview data, we find that individuals use six boundary work strategies to respond to digitalization, namely, 1. Expansion into business partner roles; 2. Expansion into other specialisms; 3. Defensive boundary work; 4. Cross-functional collaborative boundary work; 5. Boundary spanning/bridging work; and 6. Organizational restructuring work. We also examine finance professionals’ different perceptions regarding the permeability of accounting boundaries and the effects of digitalization, which underpin the use of different strategies. Finally, we shed light on the unintended consequences of these boundary work activities for inter-professional competition, for the nature and scope of accounting roles, and for the future of the management accounting profession, more broadly.
本研究从边界工作的理论视角出发,研究了高级财务专业人员应对数字化紧张局势的经验和对策。基于访谈数据,我们发现个人使用六种边界工作策略来应对数字化,即:1.扩展到业务伙伴角色;2.扩展到其他专业领域;3.防御性边界工作;4.跨职能协作边界工作;5.边界跨越/桥接工作;以及6.组织重组工作。组织重组工作。我们还研究了财务专业人员对会计边界渗透性和数字化影响的不同看法,这些看法是使用不同策略的基础。最后,我们揭示了这些边界工作活动对专业间竞争、会计角色的性质和范围以及更广泛的管理会计专业的未来所产生的意想不到的后果。
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Uncovering interfirm links through textual topic similarity: A comomentum analysis in financial markets 通过文本主题相似性发现公司间联系:金融市场中的常量分析
Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101446
Zhiyu Zhang, Zheng Qiao, Yao Ge, Zhe Shen
Using an unsupervised topic modelling methodology, we construct a cross-firm similarity measure based on the various topics extracted from Management Discussion and Analysis texts. Our findings indicate that the returns of firms with similar textual topics predict the focal firms’ future stock returns. A long-short portfolio constructed on this basis yields an annualised alpha of 17.03%. Further analyses show that the return predictability is stronger for stocks subject to limited investor attention and limits to arbitrage. Additionally, our textual linkage measure can also predict future earnings surprises. Overall, mispricing due to sluggish information incorporation acts as a potential explanation for return predictability.
我们采用无监督主题建模方法,根据从《管理层讨论与分析》文本中提取的各种主题,构建了一种跨公司相似性度量方法。我们的研究结果表明,文本主题相似的公司的回报率可以预测重点公司未来的股票回报率。在此基础上构建的多空投资组合产生了 17.03% 的年化阿尔法。进一步的分析表明,对于投资者关注度有限和套利受限的股票,收益预测性更强。此外,我们的文本关联测量也能预测未来的盈利意外。总体而言,信息吸收迟缓导致的错误定价是收益可预测性的一个潜在解释。
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A real effects of climate-related shareholder proposals: Diversification 气候相关股东提案的实际效果:多样化
Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101450
Greg Tindall
To date, the literature has not discovered diversification to be a firm policy that shareholders can influence through their proposals at annual meetings but has explained contexts in which diversification can defend. I contemplate and test diversifying responses to shareholder proposals made in the context of climate change. By following 440 shareholder-initiated proposals in the United States that contain “climate change” – from the first instance in the 1994 proxy season until 2020 – I find that firms in receipt of such proposals diversify more, mostly into related industries. Further, diversification prompted by climate proposals generally leads to wealth enhancements. Beyond correlations and the main results of ordinary least squares regressions, I address the endogenous nature of corporate policies in a variety of ways: a matching estimator, fixed effects, and an instrumental variable, along with a placebo and a GMM estimator. Robustness tests confirm prior results and expose a subtle difference between sales and asset diversification. Climate-related proposals appear to influence sales diversification slightly more than asset diversification, suggesting that agents may be less responsive to owner concerns than customers. Overall, shareholder proposals related to climate change can have the real effect of prompting firms to diversify.
迄今为止,相关文献尚未发现多元化是股东可以通过年会上的提案施加影响的一项坚定政策,但却解释了在哪些情况下多元化可以起到保护作用。我考虑并测试了在气候变化背景下对股东提案的多样化回应。通过跟踪美国 440 项包含 "气候变化 "内容的股东提案--从 1994 年委托代理季的首次提案到 2020 年--我发现,收到此类提案的公司会进行更多的多元化,主要是进入相关行业。此外,由气候提案引发的多元化通常会带来财富增值。除了相关性和普通最小二乘法回归的主要结果外,我还通过多种方法解决了企业政策的内生性问题:匹配估计法、固定效应、工具变量以及安慰剂和 GMM 估计法。稳健性检验证实了之前的结果,并揭示了销售和资产多样化之间的微妙差异。气候相关提案对销售多样化的影响似乎略大于资产多样化,这表明代理人对所有者关注问题的反应可能不如客户。总体而言,与气候变化相关的股东提案可以产生促使企业多元化的实际效果。
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Accounting research for the digital age 数字时代的会计研究
Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2024.101443
Bin Ke
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