 Experts or rivals: Mimicry and voluntary disclosureManuel Cano-Rodriguez, Gilberto Márquez-Illescas and Manuel Núñez-Níckel Journal of Business Research, 2017, vol. 73, issue C, 46-54 Abstract: This study explores the effect of firm experience and competition on individual firms' motivation to imitate the voluntary disclosure practices of reference firms in product markets. Using Spain's newspaper industry from 1966 to 1993, the empirical findings show that the more experienced firms are, the less likely they are to imitate the disclosure practices of other better-informed organizations. Likewise, more experienced firms show a lower propensity to follow the disclosure practices adopted by the firms on their business segment. By contrast, firms operating in more competitive markets have greater incentives to mimic the disclosure behavior of rival organizations. This article concludes that firm experience and the degree of competition in the market are likely to moderate a firm's incentives to imitate the voluntary disclosure practices of other organizations. Furthermore, the results indicate that the effects of these two factors are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary. Keywords: Imitation; Experience; Competition; Voluntary disclosure; Newspaper (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:73:y:2017:i:c:p:46-54 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.12.003 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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