“…Previous research on sticky costs is related to agency conflicts and corporate governance (Ali et al, 2021;Riegler & Weiskirchner-Merten, 2021;Zonatto et al, 2018); certain industries (Cohen et al, 2017;Kartikasari et al, 2018;Lusiana & Kristianti, 2020;Safitri & Kristianti, 2022); managerial characteristics (Krisnadewi et al, 2022;Restuti et al, 2022); also CSR (Fan et al, 2021;Golden et al, 2020;Habib & Hasan, 2019b). There is also research using employee costs as an independent variable in research on cost stickiness (Laffranchini et al, 2020;.…”