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Plural form business strategy and financial reporting quality in hospitality firms

Cédric Poretti
Prashant Das

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This paper analyzes how the plural form business strategy (i.e., simultaneously pursuing a fee-oriented and an equity-based strategy) impacts financial reporting quality of international hospitality firms. Drawing on the agency theory perspective, we analyze a sample of global hospitality companies over 2010–2019 using OLS, entropy balancing, and Heckman two-stage estimations. Our results suggest that greater use of the plural form is positively associated with higher earnings management (i.e., lower financial reporting quality). The plural form induces financial reporting complexity, which increases the likelihood of earnings management. However, the presence of large shareholders, aiming at reducing earnings management practices for reputation purposes, offsets this effect. This study identifies a specific feature of the hospitality industry, namely the pursuit of the plural form business strategy, as triggering more complexity, which results in detrimental lower reporting quality for investors.
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hal-04536811 , version 1 (08-04-2024)

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Cédric Poretti, Tiphaine Jérôme, Prashant Das. Plural form business strategy and financial reporting quality in hospitality firms. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2024, 59, pp.60-69. ⟨10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.03.008⟩. ⟨hal-04536811⟩

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