Reputation repair after a serious restatement

Accounting Review

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1329-1363

  Chakravarthy, Jivas ^a   De Haan, Ed ^b   Rajgopal, Shivaram ^c  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting restatements; Corporate reputation; Corporate social responsibility; Earnings credibility; Reputation repair

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926517550     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: 15587967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-50716     Document Type: Review

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