Search Results - "rent-seeking"
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Why pollution standards are preferred by industries: pragmatism and rent-seeking behaviour
Published 1996“…Thus, with a pragmatic approach coupled with a rent-seeking behaviour of the polluters, a shift to the use of economic instruments is neither likely nor desirable even when administrative and transactions costs are not considered.…”
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Showdown in Schönau: a contest case study
Published 2017Subjects: “…Referendum; Political campaign; Rent seeking…”
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Guanxi and its influence on the judgements of Chinese auditors
Published 2012“…A major objective of this study is to develop a guanxi scale with two dimensions, favour-seeking guanxi and, for the first time, a rent-seeking guanxi, based on Ang and Leong’s (2000) guanxi scale and Su and Littlefield’s (2001) classifications of guanxi orientations. …”
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Accounting Students’ Perceptions of Guanxi and Their Ethical Judgments
Published 2012“…While favour-seeking guanxi appears to be equally important across cultural groups (as a universal set of values), its negative variant, rent-seeking guanxi continues to be sanctioned to a greater extent by students holding temporary visas from Mainland China. …”
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The impact of Chinese auditors’ values on their ethical decision-making in China
Published 2008“…Chinese auditors’ rent-seeking guanxi orientations are found to be negatively associated with Idealism and both favour-seeking and rent-seeking guanxi orientations are found to be positively associated with Relativism. 3. …”
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Guanxi, a two-edged sword! How Australian accounting professionals view the process within a moral framework
Published 2014“…Both groups (i.e. public accountants and private accountants) reject rent-seeking guanxi as clearly unethical. Rent-seeking guanxi is seen to directly influence ethical judgement and intention; however, their favour-seeking guanxi attitudes do not influence ethical judgement or intention, regardless of employment type. …”
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Employee views of corporate tax aggressiveness in China: The effects of guanxi and audit independence
Published 2015“…Based on a survey completed by 174 respondents in 2013, we find that two types of guanxi: favour-seeking guanxi and rent-seeking guanxi are significantly associated with ethical judgments of corporate tax aggressiveness. …”
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Shifting the goalposts? Analysing changes to performance peer groups used to determine the remuneration of FTSE100 CEOs
Published 2017“…The results suggest that peer group modifications can be viewed, at least in part, as an expression of managerial rent-seeking.…”
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Formal and Informal Institutions and Fair Value Opinion Shopping: An Institutional Anomie Theory Perspective
Published 2023“…These results are more pronounced for managers with higher both rent-seeking and favour-seeking guanxi orientations are more likely to engage in fair value opinion shopping. …”
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Military-experienced directors, CEO busyness and financial statement footnotes readability: evidence from Indonesia
Published 2024“…The findings largely support the convergence of the political connections literature in which rent-seeking activities are prevalent and prevent sound financial reporting.…”
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Introduction to China’s new normal economy
Published 2017“…Largely relied on low-cost investment, cheap and abundant labour and use of natural resources to support growth, China has faced a number of challenges including high debt to GDP, demographic changes and environmental degradation, along with income inequality, corruption and rent-seeking activities. In recent years, China’s economic growth rate has fallen from the historic double-digit rate to 6–7%. …”
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Political influences and investors’ perceived risk: a preliminary study
Published 2018“…However, the government obligations towards the people in social and political agenda have exacerbated the rent-seeking activities of political directors in realising the objectives. …”
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Effects of Malaysian employee stock option scheme on stock liquidity, productivity, and earnings management of listed firms
Published 2012“…It can be concluded that these results are consistent with rent-seeking theory which states that instead of drawing the interest of stockholders and employees together through productivity enhancement, Esos induces opportunistic earnings management practices. …”
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Power elites and state-business relations: Malaysia-China selected belt and road initiative projects / Khaw Mooi Hock
Published 2021“…This study notes that different LPEs, as key actors in the state, might have turned effective and collaborative SBRs, fashioned to implement the three BRI projects, into economic endeavours that also feature ineffective and collusive relationships, characterised by rent-seeking behaviour. This study also highlights that key UMNO elites and Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) appear to be central in these novel SBRs, an issue that has had major implications for the Malaysian economy, as well as its political system. …”
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Natural resources, financial development and economic growth in selected MENA countries
Published 2020“…Additionally, the abundance of natural resources may hinder financial development by increasing opportunities for rent-seeking and corruption. Thus, resource-plenty countries in the MENA region will boost the level of financial development through minimizing the degree of corruption in their financial sectors. …”
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Entrepreneurial capacity and state incapacity: Family firms in Bangladesh / Farzana Nahid
Published 2017“…These family firms emerged in Bangladesh, a weak state marked by persistent political turmoil, a deeply fractured bureaucracy stemming from the country’s double partition history, an inefficient and inexperienced political and judicial institutions, and a governance system heavily plagued by corruption and rent-seeking. Moreover, since independence, different regimes have initiated various policies through which the agrarian-dominated economy gradually turned into a manufacturing-dominated economy where family firms were the main engines of economic growth. …”
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Transparency effects on capital flow, economic growth and income inequality
Published 2019“…Transparency reform initiatives that improve oil extractive industry in respect of governance and support facilitate oil rents channel to productive investment, reduce rent-seeking and corruption in public officials. Lastly, transparency could be achieved indirectly by enhancing the existing transparency reform policies that promote good governance in order to curb the inequality and redistribution resource among population. …”
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Transparency effects on capital flow, economic growth and income inequality
Published 2019“…Transparency reform initiatives that improve oil extractive industry in respect of governance and support facilitate oil rents channel to productive investment, reduce rent-seeking and corruption in public officials. Lastly, transparency could be achieved indirectly by enhancing the existing transparency reform policies that promote good governance in order to curb the inequality and redistribution resource among population. …”
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