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Enterprise Resource Planning System Usage and Stock Price Crash Risk

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  • Feng Cao
  • Jian Sun
  • Rongli Yuan
  • Hong Zou

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We examine whether Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) usage affects the stock price crash risk of Chinese firms, and whether the effect differs between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-SOEs. We find that ERP usage is associated with lower stock price crash risk, but this pattern is largely concentrated in non-SOEs, consistent with our arguments that more acute shareholder-manager agency problem and more organizational rigidity can inhibit the successful assimilation of ERP. The results are further confirmed by a difference-in-differences analysis exploiting the privatization of SOEs as a negative shock to their shareholder-manager agency problem and organizational rigidity. Three channels help explain why ERP usage helps lower stock price crash risk: it improves the quality of internal control, reduces the chance of financial restatements, and mitigates information asymmetry, and all effects are concentrated in non-SOEs. Our study is among the first to examine how ERP usage affects stock price crash risk – an overall outcome measure of a firm's information environment. Using SOEs vs. non-SOEs as a powerful measure of the shareholder-manager agency problem and organizational rigidity, it also represents the first test of the moderating effect of agency problem and organizational rigidity on the effectiveness of ERP usage.

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  • Feng Cao & Jian Sun & Rongli Yuan & Hong Zou, 2024. "Enterprise Resource Planning System Usage and Stock Price Crash Risk," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(3), pages 929-963, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:euract:v:33:y:2024:i:3:p:929-963
    DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2022.2130954
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