This study investigates the incidence of operational risk events in the U.S. industrial firms during the period 1980 to 2012. We discuss them from the two aspects of firm and chief executive officer (CEO) characteristics. We find that firms that are complex, with high accounting risk, and with weak internal corporate governance tend to suffer operational losses; yet the influence on external corporate governance is not significant. We also find that firms experiencing operational losses tend to be firms have CEOs with high equity incentives, young age, and short tenure. Overall, we show that the two most crucial determinants for the occurrence of operational losses are high accounting risk and poor internal corporate governance mechanism. These results provide new insight about operational risk management for industrial firms.
英文關鍵字
operational risk, firm characteristics, corporate governance, CEO characteristics
