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Christopher W. School of Business, University of Kansas, USA

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Gurmeet S. Bhabra University of Otago, New Zealand

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Delaware, USA

Stephen P. Ferris Department of Finance, University of

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of Georgia and University of Michigan Business
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of Technology, USA

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John D. Martin Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University,

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Jeffry M. Netter Department of Banking and Finance, University of

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Annette B. Poulsen Department of Banking and Finance,

University of Georgia, USA
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University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Nilanjan Sen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Peng Peck Yen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

BANK MONITORING, FIRM
PERFORMANCE, AND TOP
MANAGEMENT TURNOVER IN JAPAN

Christopher W. Anderson, Terry L. Campbell II,

Narayanan Jayaraman and Gershon N. Mandelker

ABSTRACT
An inverse relation between performance and managerial turnover at
Japanese firms suggests that bank monitoring substitutes for other gov-
ernance mechanisms (Kaplan, 1994; Kang & Shivdasani, 1995). Morck
and Nakamura (1999), however, report that Japanese banks protect their
self-interests as creditors rather than the interests of shareholders when
appointing corporate directors. We re-examine data on top management
changes at Japanese firms and find results consistent with this latter notion.
Specifically, management turnover is conditionally related to a firm’s ability
to meet its short-term obligations rather than profitability or stock returns.
Bank monitoring is therefore not a substitute for mechanisms that directly
serve shareholders’ interests.

1. INTRODUCTION
U.S.-style mechanisms for corporate control are relatively weak or non-existent
in Japan. For example, the ownership of many Japanese firms is characterized
by cross holding of shares by industrial and financial groups, and the market for

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takeovers is relatively inactive (Aoki, 1992; Kester, 1991). Outside directorships

are also rare in Japan (Ballon & Tomita, 1988; Kaplan, 1994), as are individual
block holders (Nishiyama, 1984; Prowse, 1992). An inactive takeover market,
the prevalence of firm grouping, and the absence of individual blockholders
imply that management is insulated from monitoring and control by shareholders
(Nishiyama, 1984). On the other hand, it has been argued that monitoring by com-
mercial banks substitutes for shareholder governance (Aoki, 1990, 1992; Sheard,
1989). Specifically, the intimacy of bank-client relationships, coupled with the
bank’s authority to intervene during periods of financial distress, may serve as a
mechanism that monitors firm performance and disciplines management. Kaplan
(1994, 1997), Kaplan and Minton (1994), and Kang and Shivdasani (1995) report
an inverse relation between Japanese firm performance and managerial turnover
that is seemingly consistent with this notion.
Since the collapse of asset prices in Japan in the early 1990s, the ensuing reces-
sion, and the onset of the banking crisis, the role of Japanese banks in the affairs
of their client firms has been critically re-examined. Kang and Stulz (2000) find
that bank-dependent Japanese firms experience worse stock price performance
than other firms during the 1990s. Gibson (1995) provides evidence that troubled
Japanese banks inefficiently ration credit among their borrowers. Kang, Shivdasani
and Yamada (2000) report that benefits to bank monitoring of investment decisions
by client firms appear to dissipate in the early 1990s when banks themselves
became troubled. Finally, Morck and Nakamura (1999) suggest that bank inter-
vention by means of appointments to boards of directors of client firms is in the
short-term self-interest of the bank rather than the interests of shareholders of such
firms. These studies question whether monitoring by Japanese banks effectively
substitutes for mechanisms of corporate control that directly safeguard shareholder
wealth.
The purpose of this study is to examine these two conflicting views of Japanese
corporate governance mechanisms by investigating the determinants of top man-
agement change. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which measures that are
directly related to creditors’ interest, such as liquidity and leverage, explain top
management changes at Japanese firms as opposed to profitability or stock returns.
We examine data on top management changes and performance at 207 Japanese
firms from 1984 to 1989, a period that precedes the collapse of asset prices and
ensuing recession in the 1990s but which matches sample periods of earlier studies
of management incentives in Japan (Kaplan, 1994; Kang & Shivdasani, 1995).
We first confirm the findings of these earlier studies that report an inverse relation
between profitability and managerial turnover for similar sample periods. We
then focus on measures of a firm’s ability to meet its short-term obligations and
the degree to which they predict top management changes. Our findings suggest
Bank Monitoring, Firm Performance, and Top Management Turnover in Japan 3

that firms with difficulties meeting short-term obligations display a higher rate
of top management change. Furthermore, we find that liquidity measures largely
dominate unconditional measures of profitability when examined simultaneously.
Specifically, while measures of liquidity and indebtedness are correlated with
profitability, when we isolate susceptibility to creditor monitoring in particular
from poor earnings performance in general, we find that it is the former notion that
matters most in influencing the likelihood of top management changes. For exam-
ple, independent of industry-adjusted earnings, firms with low interest coverage
ratios have significantly higher rates of top management change than firms with
high interest coverage ratios. In contrast, firms with high interest coverage ratios
but with relatively poor earnings performance display rates of managerial change
similar to those of profitable firms. These results suggest that top management
change at Japanese firms is triggered specifically by endangerment of creditors’
interests rather than poor profitability in general. Conversely, managers of firms
with sufficient liquidity to appease their creditors are not disciplined for poor firm
performance. Bank monitoring, therefore, does not substitute for other governance
mechanisms that directly safeguard the interests of shareholders. Instead, our
findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the Japanese corporate governance
system lacks mechanisms that vigorously protect shareholder interests.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 briefly reviews
features of the Japanese economy and their implications for corporate governance.
Section 3 discusses our data and methodology. Section 4 presents our results, and
Section 5 concludes.

2. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF JAPANESE FIRMS

Japanese corporations seem to lack several governance mechanisms that function
in the U.S. to mitigate problems associated with the separation of ownership
from management. First, large individual or family shareholders are rare in Japan
(Kaplan, 1994; Prowse, 1992), and large corporate shareholders, especially banks
and insurance companies, are themselves diffusely held (Nishiyama, 1984).
Second, outside directors are observed relatively infrequently; Ballon and Tomita
(1988) claim that 43.5% of large Japanese companies have no outside directors,
while Kaplan (1994) cites 60% for his sample of 119 firms. Coupled with an
absence of independent corporate boards and powerful individual shareholders
is an inactive takeover market.1 One obstacle to takeovers among large Japanese
firms is corporate grouping or keiretsu. A keiretsu is a group of affiliated
companies linked by crossholding of shares and the predominance of a common
large bank in the financial dealings of member firms. The stable cumulative
4 CHRISTOPHER W. ANDERSON ET AL.

shareholdings of keiretsu members, including the so-called main bank, are large
enough to render hostile takeovers impossible (Aoki, 1990).
These features of the Japanese corporate system have led some observers to
question whether Japanese managers face any effective control mechanisms
(Nishiyama, 1984). In contrast, many authors cite the critical role played by banks
in Japan and suggest that creditor monitoring is an effective alternative mechanism
that promotes corporate efficiency (Aoki, 1990, 1992; Sheard, 1989). Close ties
between firms and banks may help resolve information asymmetries and conflicts
of interest between firms and suppliers of capital (Horiuchi, Packer & Fukada,
1988; Hoshi, Kashyap & Scharfstein, 1990a, 1991; Prowse, 1990), and provide
an efficient means for resolving financial distress (Hoshi, Kashyap & Scharfstein,
1990b; Suzuki & Wright, 1985). Most importantly, it is argued that monitoring
by financial institutions effectively substitutes for the missing takeover market
as a mechanism to discipline top management. In the case of keiretsu firms, for
example, Sheard (1989) characterizes the main bank as exploiting its informational
assets derived from being a primary supplier of capital to the firm to serve as a
specialized monitor of managerial actions. In situations where corporate perfor-
mance is inadequate, the bank may intervene by stipulating policy adjustments,
limiting managerial discretion, lending managerial talent, and even calling for top
management changes.2 Evidence on changes in Japanese boards of directors also
suggests that banks place directors representing their interest on corporate boards in
response to poor performance (Kaplan & Minton, 1994). Studies by Kaplan (1994,
1997) and Kang and Shivdasani (1995) find an inverse relation between managerial
turnover and stock returns or accounting income.3 On the basis of this empirical
relation, Kaplan and Ramseyer (1996) conclude that the notion of Japanese
managers acting without regard for shareholders is “another fable for the academy.”
The role of creditor monitoring in Japan, as discussed by Aoki (1990, 1992),
for example, raises several questions regarding the extent to which monitoring
by banks substitutes for mechanisms that directly protect shareholders’ welfare.
First, performance benchmarks for managers may be those that are of keen interest
to creditors such as the firm’s ability to meet its interest and principal payment
schedules. Second, the link between corporate performance and top management
change may be weak for firms performing above a certain threshold if only firms in
financial distress experience creditor-induced managerial turnover. Finally, firms
with a high exposure to creditor monitoring, i.e. firms which are highly leveraged
in general and heavily indebted to banks in particular, may display the strongest
relation between performance and turnover.
Morck and Nakamura (1999) test several implications of this perspective
by examining appointments of directors to Japanese boards. They report that
appointments of directors by banks are primarily related to the short-term
Bank Monitoring, Firm Performance, and Top Management Turnover in Japan 5

interests of the bank, measured, for instance, by liquidity. Kaplan and Minton
(1994) suggest that such appointments presage executive turnover, but Morck
and Nakamura do not directly investigate management turnover. The objective
of our study is to examine the hypothesis that exposure to creditor monitoring
triggered by poor liquidity better predicts top management changes rather than
unconditional corporate performance.

3. SAMPLE AND DATA DESCRIPTION

We construct a sample of Japanese firms by cross-referencing Japanese company
listings in Moody’s International with companies listed on the University of Rhode
Island’s Pacific Basin Capital Markets Database (PACAP) for fiscal years from
1983 through 1989. This sample comprises 207 firms, although for any year the
number of firms represented is less than 207 due to data deficiencies in Moody’s.
By nature of the selection criteria for coverage by Moody’s, the sample firms are
among the largest and best known firms in Japan. The sample contains many firms
that are smaller than the 119 firms composing the sample of a similar study by
Kaplan (1994). For fiscal year 1986, the 207 sample firms have mean (median)
sales of $3.74 billion ($1.14 billion), total assets of $2.73 billion ($1.27 billion),
and market value of equity of $2.06 billion ($1.22 billion).

3.1. Top Management Change

We identify executives with the title chairman, president, or chief executive

officer as listed in Moody’s for 1983 through 1989. We classify the firm as having
experienced top management change if any previously listed top executive ceases
to be listed as a top executive in the following year.4 A mere shuffling of titles
among executives without any executive ceasing to be listed is not classified as a
management change. This classification scheme is similar to that of Warner, Watts
and Wruck (1988). The resulting sample of firm years totals 1,086 observations.
Table 1 reports management changes by year, industry, and keiretsu versus
non-keiretsu classification. Panel A reports the frequency of management changes
by fiscal year. The annual frequency is relatively constant, with only 1986 having
an unusually high number of management changes. The average annual frequency
of 13.4% is similar to the turnover frequencies reported for samples of U.S.
firms by various authors as well as the 14.5% rate cited by Kaplan (1994) and
the 12.9% reported by Kang and Shivdasani (1995) for samples of Japanese
firms. Panel B demonstrates that the sample is well distributed across industry
6 CHRISTOPHER W. ANDERSON ET AL.

Table 1. Observed Frequency of Top Management Change.a

Fiscal-year Management Annual
Observations Changes Frequency

A. By fiscal year
1984 164 19 11.6%
1985 181 20 11.0%
1986 186 36 19.4%
1987 185 25 13.5%
1988 189 26 13.8%
1989 181 20 11.0%
All years 1,086 146 13.4%
B. By industry
Textiles 63 9 14.3%
Pulp & paper 35 6 17.1%
Chemicals 168 22 13.1%
Petroleum & rubber 23 2 8.7%
Glass & ceramics 42 10 23.8%
Iron & steel 34 5 14.7%
Other metals 47 8 17.0%
Machinery 108 10 9.3%
Electrical machinery 173 25 14.5%
Transportation equipment 112 17 15.2%
Precision equipment 52 6 11.5%
Other manufacturing 72 2 2.8%
Wholesale 50 11 22.0%
Retail 79 6 7.6%
Transportation & shipping 28 7 25.0%
C. By keiretsu classification
Keiretsu (69 firms) 385 53 13.8%
Non-keiretsu (138 firms) 701 93 13.3%
a This table reports observed managerial change for 207 firms composing a sample of 1,086 fiscal years

from 1984 to 1989. Management change is defined as the delisting of any top executives (chairman,
president, or CEO) previously listed as such by Moody’s International. The number of observations
per fiscal year reported in panel A varies according to data availability for sample firms in Moody’s.
Industry classification for panel B is according to the PACAP Database for Japan. Keiretsu classification
in panel C is by Nakatani (1984).

groups, but it also suggests considerable industry variation in the incidence of

top management change. Analysis of these patterns rejects the hypothesis that
turnover likelihood is identical across all industries. All analyses were reproduced
after including industry-specific dummy variables with results similar to those
reported. For brevity, further discussion of industry patterns is omitted. Panel C
of Table 1 compares top management changes in the keiretsu sample to that of the
Bank Monitoring, Firm Performance, and Top Management Turnover in Japan 7

non-keiretsu firm sample.5 The keiretsu and non-keiretsu firm samples comprise
69 and 138 firms, with 385 and 701 firm fiscal years, respectively. The rates of
management change are similar (13.8% for keiretsu members compared to 13.3%
for non-keiretsu firms), and a chi-squared test fails to reject the hypothesis that
they are identical.

3.2. Firm Performance

We compute performance measures for sample firms using the PACAP Database
for Japan. First, we calculate return on assets (ROA), defined as earnings before
interest and taxes divided by total assets. We then subtract the equally-weighted
matching industry average return on assets from this measure for each observation
and derive an industry-adjusted return on assets referred to subsequently as
IROA. Weisbach (1988), Barro and Barro (1990), and Kaplan (1994) also use
performance measures based on return on assets in studies concerning top
management incentives. We also compute profit margin on sales (IPM), defined
as operating income scaled by sales, adjusted by industry averages. Scaling
earnings by sales may be more appropriate to the extent that land and financial
asset appreciation, accelerated depreciation, and other factors distort book value
of assets.
Stock returns are the performance measures of choice for a host of studies
focusing on U.S. firms (Coughlan & Schmidt, 1985; Gibbons & Murphy, 1990;
Jensen & Murphy, 1990; Warner, Watts & Wruck, 1988). We calculate a number
of alternative stock return-based performance measures, including raw returns,
multiple-period cumulative raw returns, returns net of value weighted or equally
weighted return indices, and returns net of industry average returns. Among
these, the measures with the strongest relation to management changes are raw
returns. We report results using raw returns, cumulated over the two years prior
to the observation year (RET2) and the four years prior to the observation year
(RET4).
We examine whether variables that measure exposure to creditor pressure better
explain the incidence of top management change in Japan than profitability or stock
returns. This hypothesis is motivated by descriptive characterizations of Japanese
corporate governance (e.g. Aoki, 1992) and the findings of Morck and Nakamura
(1999) with respect to director appointments.6 We utilize several alternative mea-
sures of corporate liquidity and leverage. First, we calculate the interest coverage
ratio (COV) as operating income scaled by interest expense. Hoshi, Kashyap and
Scharfstein (1990b) use such a measure as an indicator of financial distress. We also
compute a firm’s quick ratio (QUICK) as current assets minus inventory divided
8 CHRISTOPHER W. ANDERSON ET AL.

Table 2. Summary Statistics for Firm-specific Variables.a

Variable Mean Median Std. Dev.

Sales (Yen billion) 944 282 2,429

Assets (Yen billion) 534 242 802
Market Value Equity (Yen billion) 422 215 589
ROA – return on assets 0.079 0.071 0.041
IROA – industry adjusted return on assets 0.009 0.003 0.037
PM – profit margin on sales 0.057 0.050 0.053
IPM – industry adjusted profit margin 0.010 0.004 0.048
RET2 – stock return, prior two years 0.488 0.344 0.673
RET4 – stock return, prior four years 1.057 0.715 1.357
COVb – operating income to interest expense 6.287b 3.642 6.103b
QUICK – current assets minus inventory 1.311 1.039 0.876
to current liabilities
DTV – total debt to value (debt + market equity) 0.428 0.399 0.216
LTV – loans to value (debt + market equity) 0.143 0.087 0.156
a This table provides the mean, median, and standard deviation of key variables for a sample of 1,086
fiscal years from 207 firms over 1984–1989. All data is from the PACAP Database for Japan. Industry
adjusted variables are calculated by subtracting the fiscal-year industry mean value of a given variable
from the raw value. Industry classification is by the PACAP two-digit code and the entire PACAP
universe of firms is sampled to derive industry means.
b To reduce distortions by extreme outliers, interest coverage observations above the 5% tail of the

distribution have been set to the 95% level of the distribution, or about 20.0. Without truncation the
mean and standard deviation of COV are 128.3 and 1050.9, respectively.

by current liabilities. The quick ratio is a stock measure of liquidity as opposed to

a flow measure such as the interest coverage ratio. We hypothesize that less liquid
firms will experience higher rates of management change.
In addition to these measures of liquidity, we also calculate two measures of
leverage: debt to firm value (DTV), defined as book value of debt divided by total
firm value (market value of equity plus book value of debt), and loans to value
(LTV), defined as total loans outstanding divided by firm value. Firms that have
high leverage and especially high bank loan leverage are more likely to be actively
monitored by creditors (Aoki, 1992; Hodder & Tschoegl, 1992). In contrast, less
highly leveraged firms are unlikely candidates for active monitoring and direct
intervention.
Table 2 provides the means, medians, and standard deviations for these
performance variables, as well as for sales, total assets, and market value of equity.
Table 3 reports correlations among variables. As discussed above, the average
size of sample firms is relatively large, as mean (median) sales, assets, and market
value of equity are 944 (282) billion yen, 534 (242) billion yen, and 422 (215)
billion yen, respectively. Measures of earnings performance are well behaved, with
 Bank Monitoring, Firm Performance, and Top Management Turnover in Japan
Table 3. Correlation Matrix for Firm-specific Variables.
Sales Assets MVE ROA IROA PM IPM RET2 RET4 COV QUIK DTV LTV

Sales – 0.736 0.298 −0.098 −0.065 −0.197 −0.133 −0.054 −0.068 −0.120 −0.107 0.311 0.228
Assets 0.736 – 0.588 −0.153 −0.092 −0.191 −0.126 −0.032 −0.059 −0.179 −0.188 0.372 0.284
MVE 0.298 0.588 – 0.119 0.157 0.086 0.083 0.188 0.217 0.152 −0.014 −0.217 −0.191
ROA −0.098 −0.153 0.119 – 0.941 0.806 0.773 0.170 0.288 0.722 0.305 −0.529 −0.411
IROA −0.065 −0.092 0.157 0.941 – 0.778 0.820 0.135 0.255 0.693 0.360 −0.504 −0.376
PM −0.197 −0.191 0.086 0.806 0.778 – 0.955 0.208 0.318 0.593 0.376 −0.497 −0.330
IPM −0.133 −0.126 0.083 0.773 0.820 0.955 – 0.164 0.278 0.572 0.388 −0.423 −0.265
RET2 −0.054 −0.032 0.188 0.170 0.135 0.208 0.164 – 0.720 0.105 −0.081 −0.233 −0.063
RET4 −0.068 −0.059 0.217 0.288 0.255 0.318 0.278 0.720 – 0.163 −0.044 −0.319 −0.132
COV −0.120 −0.179 0.152 0.722 0.693 0.593 0.572 0.105 0.163 – 0.566 −0.686 −0.619
QUIK −0.107 −0.188 −0.014 0.305 0.360 0.376 0.388 −0.081 −0.044 0.566 – −0.515 −0.457
DTV 0.311 0.372 −0.217 −0.529 −0.504 −0.497 −0.423 −0.233 −0.319 −0.686 −0.515 – 0.842
LTV 0.228 0.284 −0.191 −0.411 −0.376 −0.330 −0.265 −0.063 −0.132 −0.619 −0.457 0.842 –

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10 CHRISTOPHER W. ANDERSON ET AL.

industry-adjusted return on assets (IROA) and profit margin (IPM) averaging close
to zero without excessively wide dispersion. The return measures presented (RET2
and RET4) seem quite large (i.e. median return for the two prior years is 34.4%,
median return for the four prior years is 71.5%). However, given that our sample
period includes the dramatic mid-to-late 1980s rise in the Japanese stock market,
the magnitude of these measures is not surprising. Variables which proxy for
exposure to creditor monitoring are also reasonably distributed with the exception
of interest coverage (COV), which has a skewed sample distribution due to a small
number of extreme, upper tail outliers. Due to the presence of these outliers (i.e. the
5% of the observations with interest coverage ratios which exceed about 20), we set
20.0 as the upper limit for the COV variable in all reported analyses. Not surpris-
ingly, the four measures for creditor monitoring are highly correlated as reported in
Table 3.

4. DETERMINANTS OF TOP MANAGEMENT CHANGE

We utilize the sample of firm-year management changes and corresponding firm
performance measures to estimate several permutations of a logit equation of the
form:


Pr(management change)
ln = a + X B + e (1)
1 − Pr(management change)
where Pr(·) indicates probability, a is a scalar, X is a vector of performance measures
and firm characteristics, B is the corresponding vector of coefficients, and e is a
zero mean error term. We use maximum likelihood techniques to estimate Eq. (1)
(see Judge, Griffiths, Hill, Lutkepohl & Lee, 1985). Results from an ordinary least
squares estimation of a linear probability model are similar to the reported logit
results. To illustrate the economic significance of the estimated coefficients from
Eq. (1), we estimate the implied probability of top management change conditional
on certain values of the independent variables via the following transformation of
the estimated form of Eq. (1):

exp(a + X  B)
Pr(management change/X) = (2)
1 + exp(a + X  B)
To gauge the economic significance of the estimated empirical relation we fre-
quently calculate the implied change in probability of top management change
that results from a one standard deviation change (plus or minus) in a performance
measure from its mean.
Bank Monitoring, Firm Performance, and Top Management Turnover in Japan 11

4.1. Impact of Profitability and Stock Returns on Top Management Change

Table 4 presents estimated logit equations of top management change conditional

on firm performance as measured by return on assets, profit margin, and stock
returns. The first two columns of Table 4 provide estimated logit equations
that explain the likelihood of top management change as a function of industry
adjusted return on assets (IROA) and industry adjusted profit margin (IPM).
These two measures are calculated for the fiscal year immediately prior to the
observation year. Similar results are obtained when observation-year measures
are used or when the measures are averaged across these two years. The results
in these columns indicate that top management changes in Japan are significantly
related to earnings performance, as the null hypotheses that management changes
are unrelated to IROA or IPM is rejected at the 1% level. The estimated relations
appear economically significant as well; the standardized coefficient estimates
imply that a one standard deviation increase (decrease) in IROA from the sample
mean results in a decrease (increase) in management change probability of 3.5%
(4.6%) from the 12.9% rate predicted for a firm with mean IROA performance.7
The analogous probabilities associated with a one standard deviation change in
IPM from the mean are 4.0% (5.5%) from a base level of 12.8% for a firm with
mean IPM.
In order to gauge the fit of the estimated logit models and the economic signifi-
cance of the observed relation between performance and top management change,
Table 5 presents actual and estimated incidence of top management changes across
performance quintiles. Panels A and B of Table 5, for example, present the actual
and predicted rates of top management change by IROA and IPM quintiles. A
comparison of actual and predicted rates of management change by performance
quintile indicates that the logit model estimations in columns (1) and (2) of Table 4
are not driven by outliers and, in fact, fit the data rather well. For IROA, the ob-
served frequency of management change increases monotonically as performance
falls. For IPM, the relation is nearly monotonic. Chi-squared tests for differences
across performance quintiles confirm these inferences. For both IROA and IPM,
the incidence of top management change is significantly different: (i) between the
best performing quintile and the worst performing quintile; (ii) between firms with
performance above the median and firms with below median performance; and (iii)
across all performance quintiles. The observed and model-implied differences in
the rate of management changes between the best and worst performing firms are
greater for IPM than for IROA, perhaps implying that scaling earnings by annual
sales captures relative performance better than scaling by total assets, but the high
degree of correlation between the variables impedes further investigation of this
question.
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Table 4. Likelihood of Top Management Change Based on Profitability and Stock Returns.a
Variable (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

INTERCEPT −1.821 −1.830 −1.787 −1.716 −1.780 −1.743 −1.799 −1.768

[−1.906] [−1.919] [−1.867] [−1.855] [−1.907] [−1.887] [−1.921] [−1.90]
(0.0000) (0.0000) (0.0000) (0.0000) (0.0000) (0.0000) (0.0000) (0.0000)
IROA (industry −9.612 – – – −9.341 −8.776 – –
adjusted return [−0.359] [−0.347] [−0.324]
on assets) (0.0004) (0.0007) (0.0019)
IPM (industry – −8.832 – – – – −8.760 −8.400
adjusted profit [−0.421] [−0.418] [−0.398]
margin) (0.0001) (0.0001) (0.0002)
RET2 (stock – – −0.164 – −0.097 – −0.071 –
return, year [−0.111] [−0.065] [−0.048]

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t − 2 to t − 1) (0.2544) (0.5037) (0.6303)
RET4 (stock – – – −0.131 – −0.068 – −0.049
return, year [−0.178] [−0.092] [−0.067]
t − 4 to t − 1) (0.1049) (0.3957) (0.5355)
Chi-squared 13.53 17.67 1.37 3.01 13.78 13.30 18.21 17.56
(p-value) (0.0002) (0.0000) (0.2411) (0.0826) (0.0010) (0.0013) (0.0001) (0.0002)
Observations 1,086 1,086 1,079 1,062 1,079 1,062 1,079 1,062
a This table presents estimated logit equations where the dependent variable is equal to one when a top executive (chairman, president, or CEO) as
reported by Moody’s International ceases to be listed over 1984–1989. Independent variables are: IROA – industry adjusted return on assets in the
prior fiscal year; IPM – industry adjusted profit margin on sales in the prior fiscal year; RET2 – cumulative stock return in the two years prior to the
current fiscal year; and RET4 – cumulative stock return over the four prior years. Numbers in square brackets are the coefficients on standardized
independent variables. Numbers in parentheses are p-values associated with t-tests of the coefficient estimates.
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Table 5. Predicted and Observed Managerial Change Based on Profitability and

Stock Returns.a
Quintile Median Management Change

Predicted Observed

A. Management change conditional on IROA

IROA Quintile
High 0.049 9.2% 10.1%
2 0.019 11.9% 10.6%
3 0.003 13.5% 13.4%
4 −0.009 15.0% 15.2%
Low −0.026 17.2% 18.0%
Chi-squared tests of observed turnover: high quintile = low: 5.67∗∗ ; above median = below: 6.24∗∗ ; high = 2 = 3 = 4
= low: 7.96∗
B. Management change conditional on IPM
IPM Quintile
High 0.058 8.8% 6.4%
2 0.022 11.7% 13.4%
3 0.004 13.4% 12.4%
4 −0.011 15.0% 16.1%
Low −0.030 17.3% 18.9%
Chi-squared tests of observed turnover: high quintile = low: 15.91∗∗∗ ; above median = below: 6.93∗∗∗ ; high = 2 = 3
= 4 = low: 17.62∗∗∗
C. Management change conditional on RET2
RET2 Quintile
High 1.264 12.0% 11.1%
2 0.656 13.1% 11.6%
3 0.344 13.7% 16.7%
4 0.093 14.2% 15.8%
Low −0.147 14.6% 12.0%
Chi-squared tests of observed turnover: high quintile = low: 0.09; above median = below: 1.32; high = 2 = 3 = 4 =
low: 4.92
D. Management change conditional on RET4
RET4 Quintile
High 2.520 11.4% 11.7%
2 1.226 13.3% 11.8%
3 0.715 14.1% 12.2%
4 0.329 14.7% 17.0%
Low −0.040 15.3% 15.6%
Chi-squared tests of observed turnover: high quintile = low: 1.33; above median = below: 3.53∗ ; high = 2 = 3 = 4 =
low: 4.23
∗∗∗ ∗∗ ∗
, , significantly different from zero at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
a Each panel displays the sample distribution of a performance measure and turnover probabilities
across performance quintiles. Performance measures are: IROA – industry adjusted return on assets in
prior fiscal year; IPM – industry adjusted profit margin on sales in prior fiscal year; RET2 – cumulative
stock return in the two prior fiscal years; RET4 – cumulative stock return over the four prior fiscal
years. Predicted turnover is obtained by using the estimated logit equations in Table 4 conditional on
quintile median performance. Tests statistics for differences in observed turnover rates are chi-squared
tests with one, one, and four degrees of freedom, respectively.
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 Anthropology - Book Review
Second 2023 - University

Prepared by: Lecturer Brown

Date: July 28, 2025

Discussion 1: Practical applications and examples

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Review 5: Historical development and evolution
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• Historical development and evolution
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Practice Problem 80: Ethical considerations and implications
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Practice Problem 90: Literature review and discussion
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- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 126: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Definition: Best practices and recommendations
• Problem-solving strategies and techniques
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Practice Problem 127: Critical analysis and evaluation
• Practical applications and examples
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 128: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Important: Historical development and evolution
• Critical analysis and evaluation
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 129: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Note: Current trends and future directions
• Comparative analysis and synthesis
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Practice 14: Research findings and conclusions
Important: Case studies and real-world applications
• Fundamental concepts and principles
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Practice Problem 131: Historical development and evolution
• Comparative analysis and synthesis
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Key Concept: Research findings and conclusions
• Best practices and recommendations
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Remember: Assessment criteria and rubrics
• Practical applications and examples
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 134: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Important: Best practices and recommendations
• Experimental procedures and results
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 135: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Key Concept: Fundamental concepts and principles
• Theoretical framework and methodology
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Note: Assessment criteria and rubrics
• Comparative analysis and synthesis
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
[Figure 137: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Remember: Current trends and future directions
• Theoretical framework and methodology
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Important: Study tips and learning strategies
• Best practices and recommendations
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Example 139: Critical analysis and evaluation
• Critical analysis and evaluation
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Section 15: Study tips and learning strategies
Example 140: Best practices and recommendations
• Fundamental concepts and principles
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Key Concept: Statistical analysis and interpretation
• Study tips and learning strategies
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Note: Learning outcomes and objectives
• Study tips and learning strategies
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Definition: Fundamental concepts and principles
• Learning outcomes and objectives
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Remember: Experimental procedures and results
• Learning outcomes and objectives
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Practice Problem 145: Ethical considerations and implications
• Assessment criteria and rubrics
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Note: Fundamental concepts and principles
• Case studies and real-world applications
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
[Figure 147: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Example 147: Theoretical framework and methodology
• Learning outcomes and objectives
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Practice Problem 148: Case studies and real-world applications
• Study tips and learning strategies
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
[Figure 149: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
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