A review of meta-analytic research in accounting

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• 作者：Hichem Khlif^a ; ^{hichemkhlif@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Keryn Chalmers^b ; ¹ ; ^{keryn.chalmers@monash.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Meta-analysis ; Accounting research
• 刊名：Journal of Accounting Literature
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：October 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：35
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-27
• 全文大小：686 K

文摘

This study reviews the use of meta-analysis in accounting research. We categorize the meta-analytic research into five topics: financial reporting, auditing, corporate governance and accounting quality, management accounting, and miscellaneous topics. Further, we classify the studies by the meta-analysis technique employed: Hunter et al. (1982), Hunter and Schmidt (2000), Lipsey and Wilson (2001), and Stouffer's approach. We identify 27 meta-analytical studies over the period 1985–2014 with financial reporting (auditing) topics representing seven (six) of these studies. Our review highlights that meta-analytic methods are being applied and accepted, more frequently, to answer complex questions concerning the moderating effects of country-level variables, such as national culture, economic conditions, and institutional characteristics, on various associations of interest.