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Publication date: 14 January 2025

Weerapong Kitiwong, Thanu Prasertsoontorn, Ausanee Ratsamewongjan, Puritud Inya and Pornsit Jiraporn

As the debate over CEO duality’s impact on firm performance is still ongoing, the purpose of this study is to redefine CEO duality in Thai family firms and examine its impact on…

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Purpose

As the debate over CEO duality’s impact on firm performance is still ongoing, the purpose of this study is to redefine CEO duality in Thai family firms and examine its impact on the relationship between earnings management and firm performance.

Design/methodology/approach

This study uses a sample of 1,360 firm-year observations from listed firms on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. A fixed effect regression is used to obtain the empirical results. The results of this study are further validated using two-stage least squares estimation, subsample regression and an alternative measure of family firms.

Findings

This study finds that firms with CEO duality are more likely to engage in REM, supporting Agency Theory. However, family-controlled firms with CEO duality engage less in REM in pursuit of firm performance. This study’s findings highlight the potential benefits of CEO duality in family firms as a mechanism to support Socioemotional Wealth of the controlling family. Therefore, the mandatory ban on CEO duality may have unintended consequences for family firms.

Originality/value

This paper provides further evidence on the impact of CEO duality on the relationship between earnings management and firm performance in Thailand’s family-dominated stock market. A new definition of CEO duality is proposed, including firms where the CEO is related to the chair of the board. This boarder definition provides more comprehensive measurement compared to the traditional definition which may fail to capture the full scope of influence exerted by controlling family, as they may obscure CEO duality by appointing individuals with kinship ties to the CEO as the chair of the board.

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Journal of Asia Business Studies, vol. 19 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1558-7894

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Publication date: 23 July 2020

Weerapong Kitiwong and Naruanard Sarapaivanich

This paper aims to ask whether the implementation of the expanded auditor’s report, which included a requirement to disclose key audit matters (KAMs) in Thailand since 2016, has…

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Purpose

This paper aims to ask whether the implementation of the expanded auditor’s report, which included a requirement to disclose key audit matters (KAMs) in Thailand since 2016, has improved audit quality.

Design/methodology/approach

To answer this question, the authors examined audit quality two years before and two years after its adoption by analysing 1,519 firm-year observations obtained from 312 companies. The authors applied logistic regression analyses to the firm-year observations.

Findings

The authors found some weak evidence that KAMs disclosure improved audit quality because of auditors putting more effort into their audits and audits being performed thoroughly after the implementation of KAMs. Interestingly, the number of disclosed KAMs and the most common types of disclosed KAMs are not associated with audit quality. Only disclosed KAMs related to acquisitions are more informative because the presence of this type of disclosed KAMs signals the greater likelihood of financial restatements being made in a later year.

Originality/value

Unlike previous studies on the impact of KAMs disclosure on audit quality, which used discretionary accruals as proxy for audit quality, this study used the occurrence of financial restatements.

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Managerial Auditing Journal, vol. 35 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0268-6902

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Publication date: 9 June 2023

Tanyatip Kharuhayothin, Weerapong Kitiwong and Warunya Chaitarin

This study leverages an integrated framework that uses the theory of planned behavior (TPB), risk perception and sustainable behavior to investigate the COVID-19 risk perception…

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Purpose

This study leverages an integrated framework that uses the theory of planned behavior (TPB), risk perception and sustainable behavior to investigate the COVID-19 risk perception of a potentially powerful consumer group – generation Z – on decisions to participate in the domestic tourism stimulus campaign and their willingness to practice socially responsible behaviors.

Design/methodology/approach

Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data. The study adopts partial least squares-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to examine the data with the final sample of 422 generation Z in Thailand.

Findings

The COVID-19 perceived risk positively affects attitudes, perceived behavioral control and the intention to join domestic tourism campaign, affecting the desire to engage in sustainable behaviors when traveling. Attitude and perceived behavioral control mediated risk perception and the decision to join the campaign. Unlike other studies, generation Z is conscious of the situation but is not risk-averse to travel.

Practical implications

The study offers recommendations (and domestic tourism campaign's features) for government agencies and tourism partitioners, especially developing tourism destinations, to effectively launch domestic tourism campaigns to target generation Z during and after post-pandemic crises.

Originality/value

This study contributes to our limited understanding of generation Z's travel behaviors. It contributes to the extended use of TPB, risk perception and socially responsible conduct of such a specific generation. It is one of the first studies integrating the COVID-19 risk perception of generation Z and their intention to utilize the stimulus campaign.

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Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights, vol. 7 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2514-9792

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Publication date: 2 February 2024

Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard, Pandej Chintrakarn, Pornsit Jiraporn, Weerapong Kitiwong and Sirithida Chaivisuttangkun

Exploiting a novel measure of hostile takeover exposure primarily based on the staggered adoption of state legislations, we explore a crucial, albeit largely overlooked, aspect of…

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Purpose

Exploiting a novel measure of hostile takeover exposure primarily based on the staggered adoption of state legislations, we explore a crucial, albeit largely overlooked, aspect of corporate social responsibility (CSR). In particular, we investigate CSR inequality, which is the inequality across different CSR categories. Higher inequality suggests a less balanced, more lopsided, CSR policy.

Design/methodology/approach

In addition to the standard regression analysis, we perform several robustness checks including propensity score matching, entropy balancing and an instrumental-variable analysis.

Findings

Our results show that more takeover exposure exacerbates CSR inequality. Specifically, a rise in takeover vulnerability by one standard deviation results in an increase in CSR inequality by 4.53–5.40%. The findings support the managerial myopia hypothesis, where myopic managers promote some CSR activities that are useful to them in the short run more than others, leading to higher CSR inequality.

Originality/value

Our study is the first to exploit a unique measure of takeover vulnerability to investigate the impact of takeover threats on CSR inequality, which is an important aspect of CSR that is largely overlooked in the literature. We aptly fill this void in the literature.

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Managerial Finance, vol. 50 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4358

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