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Title
Auditor human capital and audit firm survival: the Dutch audit industry in 1930-1992
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Abstract
This paper studies the relationship between auditor human capital and audit firm survival. Specifically, the effects are investigated of the human capital of auditors on the survival chances of newly established audit firms. Human capital is analyzed both at the time of entry of a new audit firm and during the lifetime of an audit firm. The data set contains 1693 firms that entered into the Dutch audit market in the period 19301992. To analyze the data, the technique of event history analysis is applied. There are two key results of the study. First, a higher level of education of the firms auditors, both at founding and during the lifetime of an audit firm, generally increases audit firm performance. Second, the effects of experience at founding and experience during the lifetime of an audit firm vary considerably. Higher levels of experience at founding have a positive influence on audit firm performance. However, higher levels of experience during the lifetime of an audit firm, i.e., the aging of the firms auditors, have a negative effect on firm performance
Language
English
Source (journal)
Accounting, organizations and society. - Oxford, 1976, currens
Publication
Oxford : Pergamon , 2004
ISSN
0361-3682 [print]
1873-6289 [online]
DOI
10.1016/J.AOS.2003.10.008
Volume/pages
29 :7 (2004) , p. 627-646
ISI
000223572300003
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