Managerial Control and Executive Compensation

Review of Industrial Organization - This article analyzes the trajectory and causes of the explosion of American corporate CEOs’ compensation relative to that of average workers between 1958...     

The impact of state shares on corporate innovation strategy and performance in China

This paper examines the impact of state shares on corporate innovation strategy and performance in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Through an investigation of 541 publicly traded companies in five high-tech industries during the period between 2000 and 2005, we find that the presence of state shares have a positive effect on the corporate choice of a process innovation strategy over a product innovation one. However, this relationship is moderated by the overall ownership concentration ratio. Moreover, our findings suggest that companies with large state shares prefer to conduct innovations independently rather than collaboratively with others, and they usually achieve better innovation performance. These findings indicate that the government play a role as both an investor and a resource allocation coordinator and therefore complicate the relationship between ownership structure and corporate innovation activities.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance: The Role of Executive Compensation

This article examines the relationship between corporate governance and corporate sustainability by focusing on an essential component of companies' governance structure: executive compensation programs. We propose an original empirical strategy based on a large set of the biggest capitalizations in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries over the period 2004–2018, with explicit measures of how companies integrate into executive managers' remuneration precise criteria of corporate social responsibility, an incentive scheme called corporate social responsibility (CSR) contracting. Our results show that proposing executive compensation programs including CSR criteria has a negative impact on financial performance, and a large positive impact on extra-financial performance based on the following dimensions: relationship with customers and suppliers, and community involvement. Second, we explore the moderating role of the corporate governance model by distinguishing the impact between firms with a shareholder or stakeholder corporate governance model and reveal significant differences in the impact of CSR contracting. For firms with a stakeholder corporate governance model, CSR contracting is no longer associated with a fall of financial performance and has a large positive impact on human resources, environmental, and human rights performance. On the other hand, CSR contracting has a negative impact on financial performance but no impact on extra-financial performance for firms with a shareholder corporate governance model.     

Global diversification strategy and corporate profit performance

Based on a sample of 62 multinationals, this paper examines the impact of global diversification strategy on corporate profit performance by integrating the product and the international market dimensions of diversification. The results suggest that the corporate profit performance impact of related and unrelated diversification varies contingent upon the extent of a firm's international market diversification. One important lesson of this work is that both business strategy researchers and managers should review corporate diversification as having distinct yet interactive strategic dimensions—product and international market—and they would do well to recognize both the different and the joint effect of these dimensions on corporate profit performance.     

Product Market Competition,Executive Compensation,and CEO Family Ties

Review of Industrial Organization - This paper analyzes the interaction between product market competition and family ties on the structure of CEO pay, in a panel of publicly listed family firms....     

International Evidence on the Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation

This article describes individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation using comparable survey data for 27 countries for up to four different years. A majority of individuals believe that executives earn more than they deserve, but there is substantial variation in the perceived as well as the just level of executive compensation both within and across countries. The analysis further shows that subjective estimates of executive pay are associated with objective measures of executive compensation and income inequality, and that individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation are associated with their more general political preferences.     

投资者保护执行与高管薪酬关系的研究

文章以我国2005-2008年度沪深两市所有上市公司为样本,考察了投资者保护执行对高管薪酬的影响。研究发现,在控制了其他因素的影响后,投资者保护执行对上市公司高级管理人员的薪酬具有显著的正向影响。研究结果表明,投资者保护执行制度没有对公司治理起到应有的促进作用。     

External control,corporate strategy,and firm performance in research-intensive industries

This paper explores the proposition that the divergence of interest between managers and stockholders has implications for corporate strategy and firm profitability. Stockholders prefer strategies which maximize their wealth. Managers prefer strategies which maximize their utility. It is theorized that in research-intensive industries, when stockholders dominate, innovation strategies are favored. When managers dominate, diversification strategies are favored. In addition, innovation is argued to be associated with greater firm profitability than diversification. This theory is tested on 94 Fortune 500 firms drawn from research-intensive industries. The results largely confirm theoretical expectations.     

The relative power of ceos and boards of directors: Associations with corporate performance

A typology of the relative powers of the chief executive officer and the board of directors was derived based on the literature, highlighting four situations: Caretaker, Statutory, Proactive and Participative boards. Data collected from Fortune 500 Industrial and Fortune 500 Service corporations supported the typology. The results showed significant differences among the four board types in their characteristics, internal process, decision-making styles, board effectiveness, and contribution to company performance. Powerful boards were associated with superior corporate financial performance.     

终极控制权对高管薪酬激励效应影响的实证分析

本文基于中国A股市场上市公司样本数据,从高管人力资本产权实现的理论视角,考虑终极控制权情景因素,实证分析了高管股权激励的结果效应。结论显示,终极控制权影响高管薪酬激励方式的选择,高管薪酬激励方式影响企业绩效,具体控制权情景下高管薪酬激励方式间企业绩效存在差异。总体而言,不论国有性质还是非国有性质,低控制权强度下实施股权激励的企业绩效显著高于未实施股权激励的企业,而高控制权强度下二者的差异不显著。     

电力上市公司高管人员薪酬影响因素实证分析

文章以电力上市公司2005年年报为研究基础,考察了电力上市公司的经营绩效与其高级管理层薪酬的关系,讨论了高管人员薪酬与管理绩效、公司规模、国有股比例等因素的相关性,并对上市公司高管的薪酬激励机制进行分析。     

实施股票期权有待探讨的几个问题

一、股票期权的涵义及其发展现状经理股票期权(ExecutiveStockOption,简称ESO)是现代企业中剩余索取权的一种制度安排,它是指企业所有者向其经营者提供的一种在一定期限内按照某一既定价格购买一定数量本公司股份的权利。在行权以前,股票期权的持有人没有任何的现金收益;行权以后,其收益为行权价与行权日市场价之间的差价。企业的经营者可以自行决定在任何时间出售行权所得股票。当行权价一定时,行权人的收益与股票价格呈正比。而股票价格是股票内在价值的体现,变动趋势二者是一致的。股票价值是企业未来收益的体现,于是经营者的个人利益…     

Geographic scope,product diversification,and the corporate performance of Japanese firms

The study extends research on the geographic scope, product diversification, and performance relationship by exploring both the antecedents and consequences of geographic scope. In so doing, it addresses a fundamental criticism of the geographic scope–performance relationship; namely, that the observed positive relationship between geographic scope and performance is spurious because it is the possession of proprietary assets that is the foundation of superior performance, not expansion into international markets per se. We tested the research model with data on the corporate performance of 399 Japanese manufacturing firms. In the partial least squares analyses used to examine the study’s six main hypotheses, we demonstrate that geographic scope was positively associated with firm profitability, even when the competing effect of proprietary assets on firm performance was considered. Further, we find that performance was not related to the extent of product diversification, although investment levels in rent‐generating, proprietary assets were related to the extent of product diversification. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

我国股份制企业完善构建经理人约束机制的对策研究

由于资本的两权分离,出资者与经营者分立,双方的信息不对称,各自追求的目标存在着矛盾.在出资者与经营者的委托代理关系中,委托人必须对受托人进行有效的约束,才能真正规范执行委托代理契约.本文从股份公司内部约束机制和外部约束机制两方面阐明了构建内部控制系统和外部控制系统的措施.     

电力行业上市公司治理结构对公司绩效影响的实证研究

对如何从保证战略管理的有效性和提高资源配置效率角度来完善公司治理结构进行了研究。结合公司治理理论、战略管理理论以及电力行业的特性,利用巨潮资讯、中国股票市场研究数据库的有关资料,对2001年以前上市的35家电力行业公司从公司治理结构与战略绩效的关系上进行了研究,     

The price of corporate professionalisation: analysing the corporate capture of professions in the UK

Recent debates on the organisation of expert labour focus upon either the growing dominance of managerialism over traditional professions or the unwillingness/inability of new expert occupations to professionalise. Such arguments frequently disregard expert occupations that continue to deliberately pursue professionalisation to improve their status and influence in organisations and wider society, and therefore overlook the consequences of contemporary professionalisation for expert labour. Here we critically examine one ‘corporate profession’, project management in the UK, which has pursued ‘corporate professionalisation’ by renegotiating relationships with the state, individual members and private corporations, with some degree of success. Combining documentary analysis and interviews with professional association officials and practising project managers, this article analyses the pressures behind the corporate professionalisation strategies of this expert occupation, assessing the impact of moves towards a new model of corporate professionalism that marginalises the interests of professionals while embracing employer agendas.     

执行 执行力 执行文化——关于国有企业执行力的思考

阐述了执行、执行力、执行文化的内涵,分析了国有企业执行力的状况,并提出了打造执行文化要重点抓好三个方面的工作问题.     

Internal governance mechanisms and firm performance in China

Corporate governance issues arising from concentrated ownership structure in emerging economies have received growing attention. Adopting a principal–principal perspective, this paper employs structural equation modeling to evaluate the independent and interdependent effects of internal governance mechanisms in enhancing firms’ value in China. Based on a 3-year dataset covering 304 publicly listed companies over 2003–2005, our findings suggest that ownership concentration has the most significant governance effect and has impacted negatively on firm performance. Furthermore, the governance role of the board of directors and supervisory boards is found to have been hindered by ownership concentration, rendering them unable to improve firm performance at present.