Concerns aboutEndogeneity.
Our methodological approach essentially involves assessing the relation between an accounting outcome variable and a set of choices for organizational structure(i.e., the governance constructs). Since the regressor variables are endogenous choice variables, the exogenous determinants of these choice variables are also likely to affect the outcome variable. If the determinants of the regressor right-hand-side) variables are not included in the statistical model being estimated, then the regressor variables are correlated with the true(but unobserved) error term in the equation. In this setting, ordinary least squares(or logistic) parameter estimates will be inconsistent due to the well-known correlated omitted variables problem. Most empirical accounting research is confounded to at least some de gree by the endogenous nature of the predictors in the statistical model.