Enterprise Resource Planning System Usage and Stock Price Crash Risk

Feng Cao, Jian Sun, Rongli Yuan and Hong Zou

European Accounting Review, 2024, vol. 33, issue 3, 929-963

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2022.2130954

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