Under-performance of listed companies? Real earnings management and M&A: Chinese empirical evidence

<p><strong>Purpose:</strong> The purpose of this paper is to examine whether acquiring firms attempt to adopt real earnings management strategy to upward reported earnings in the period of M&amp;A announcement and provide an explanation for the underperformance of post-M&am...

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Main Author: Ziqiao Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: OmniaScience 2015-04-01
Series:Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
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Online Access:http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/article/view/1330