Owner as Manager,Extended Horizons and the Family Firm

Previous work on firm ownership structure suggests that organizations in which ownership and control are combined may be undervalued relative to the market investment rule because decision makers have an incentive to forgo investment projects that managers in firms with specialized ownership find profitable. However, the specialization of ownership and decision-making functions may result in substantial agency costs. This paper shows that these tradeoffs may not exist in family firms. The extended horizons characteristic of family businesses may provide the necessary incentives for decision makers to invest according to the market rule while limiting agency costs that arise when ownership and control are separated. Family ties, loyalty, insurance, and stability are expected to be effective in lengthening the horizons of managers and in providing the incentives for family managers to make efficient investments in the family business.     

中国企业海外上市与公司治理中的股东行为

针对中国企业在海外上市中暴露出来的问题,从保护股东利益的角度分析了中小投资者通过集体诉讼机制在公司治理中发挥的积极作用,这些经验对国内证券市场上的中小投资者参与公司治理及国内证券市场的机制完善有着重要的现实意义。     

The new regulatory politics of electricity in India: embryonic ground for consumer action

Newly created regulatory bodies in India are the site for emergent consumer politics around electricity. Forged as a means of attracting private capital, these bodies have nonetheless become potential spaces for consumer and citizen engagement around electricity. The nature of this emergent space is examined by developing three narratives around emergent regulatory institutions—apolitical and independent regulation, regulation as captured by the state, and regulation as contested political space. Recent examples of consumer and citizen action on electricity, and particularly protests over a tariff hike following privatisation in Delhi, suggest that regulation as an institution is poised between being absorbed into politics as usual and creating a genuinely new space for consumer action and political engagement in India.     

农村信用社产权结构及治理机制改革研究

完善的产权制度是农村信用社生存和经营的基础,是其实现健康快速发展并为建设社会主义新农村提供有效金融支持的前提条件.目前我国农村信用社产权制度不完善,存在改革的必要性.应在统一法人的基础上,因地制宜选择合理的产权改革模式,并采取有效措施,推动我国农村信用社产权结构及治理机制改革的深入进行.     

Successful and sustainable business partnerships: How to select the right partners

In more and more industries it becomes true that value creating networks compete against each other with relatively stable relations between suppliers inside the network. Managers all over the world are searching for the most efficient and effective coordinative forms for their relations with OEM's or suppliers within such a value-creating networks. This paper gives a normative guideline to decide if or if not a partnership is the right coordinative form for OEM-supplier relations within a value-creating network. Based on the existing mainly positivistic research in this field, two aspects are highlighted as the main drivers for the suitability of a partnership as a well working governance mechanism for value-creating networks: (i) individualization vs. standardization of the delivered components combined with the potential of the end customers to identify quality differences or not and (ii) the possibilities to allocate the revenues made by the value-creating network on the several ‘partners’ within the network. All aspects were integrated in a decision model for managers to find out if partnership as the coordinative form is really the best choice in a given situation.     

Global marketing and procurement of industrial products: Institutional design of interfirm functional tasks

Marketing and procuring component parts in the global marketplace can pose such significant trading hazards that industrial transactions often must be embedded in protective governance. This article identifies key forces influencing the institutional designs that best safeguard exchanges between international trading partners for such industrial tasks as the design, fabrication and delivery of component parts. The effectiveness of designs such as market contracting, alliances, and international joint ventures are shown to be a consequence of the transactional characteristics of a given task, the governance risks experienced by both buyer and supplier, and the differences between the institutional environments of the partners' countries. In addition to a comprehensive institutional design model, several propositions are developed to serve as a guide to future empirical research in the areas of global industrial marketing and procurement.     

论我国股份制商业银行发展的若干问题

股份制商业银行高速扩张造成潜在的金融风险加大.应转变股份制商业银行的发展模式,从以资产规模增长为中心的发展模式转变到以提高资本收益为中心的发展模式上来.股份制商业银行要做好市场定位:从防范金融风险的角度而言,把服务对象定位于中小企业;从空间定位角度而言,应定位于名副其实的地方性或区域性的银行.股份制商业银行要完善公司治理结构应做到:一是切实加强对中小股东利益的保护;二是要加强制度建设,抑制金融腐败.     

Victorian share-pricing - a problem in thin trading

This paper discusses the problems of nineteenth century share valuation and corporate governance. It is based on the summary of a 1900 appeal case, The Earl of Portsmouth v. Pease (1900), which was recorded in the Durham press and concerned the sale of shares within a local private family company in 1898. This contract was overturned in the Court of Chancery as being inequitable. The methods and assumptions employed to value the shares for the private family sale and a coincident public issue were described in detail; the effect of the case was dramatic and the issues raised are still relevant.     

Top management turnover an empirical investigation of mutual fund managers

This paper examines the relation between the replacement of mutual fund managers and their prior performance. Using the growth rate in a fund's asset base and its portfolio returns as two separate measures of performance, I document an inverse relation between the probability of managerial replacement and fund performance. The sample of departing fund managers exhibits higher portfolio turnover rates and higher expenses relative to an objective-matched sample of nonreplaced fund managers. The overall evidence is consistent with the presence of well-functioning internal and external market mechanisms for mutual fund managers.     

The Role of the Private Sector In The Public Service Of The Ukralne

The system of social service provision in the Ukraine functions due to its traditional patterns of social-political interaction. Private social service providers played a limited role in this process as their Institutional recognition has always been problematic. We can diversify service providing by the public and private actors interacting in this provision. In the complexity of their interactions the key variable has been philanthropy, which transformed from support of the individual to an overarching nationalistic ideology. The dynamics of social-political governance is expressed now in the tensions between more traditional patterns of interactions based on their reciprocity with the economic, political and ideology crisis the country is facing Ineffective management of government social service providers, prevalence of western donor-rooted Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), failures of indigenous NGOs to achieve the social value, moral degradation and disbelief in democracy and reforms in population characterize social service provision in the country now.