1. IntroductionBoth the popular press and academics suggest that industrially and geographically diversified firms are subject to increased information asymmetry and agency costs and as a result corporate diversification is a value-destroying strategy (Lang & Stulz, 1994; Berger & Ofek, 1995; Denis, Denis, & Sarin, 1997). Consequently, the literature indi- cates that the degree of earnings management by targets is conditional upon its degree of organizational complexity, such as the level of industrial and geographic diversification. The extent of opportunistic earnings management is likely to be higher the greater the level of infor- mation asymmetry (Richardson, 2000). Nevertheless, in spite of interest in the two types of diversification, there is little research about the po- tentially different impact that industrial and geographic diversification may have on earnings management. This research aims to address this point.
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