混合所有制企业公司治理研究

国有企业推行混合所有制改革的动因是提高企业的经营绩效。公司治理水平是影响企业经营绩效的重要因素。性质不同股东的存在使混合所有制企业的公司治理相较于一般公司更为复杂。构建一个研究混合所有制企业公司治理的新框架可以发现,从股东目标的一致性、股权结构的优化、董事会治理机制的完善和外部治理环境的改善等几个方面入手,可以有效提高混合所有制企业的公司治理水平。     

公司治理披露的信息含量——基于股权结构和董事会特徵的实证研究

我国上市公司财务报告公告日中披露的公司治理信息是否具有信息含量？这是一个需要证实的问题。本文运用累计超额收益和多元回归分析模型，从股权结构、董事会特徵与累计超额收益关系方面封沪、深股市1999—2002年中的208家上市公司进行了实证分析。初步得出结论：研究样本与控制样本累计超额收益在公告日有显着差异，表明公司治理披露具有信息含量。但在股权结构、董事会特徵对累计超额收益影响方面．发现股权结构比董事会特徵更具有信息含量。从年度检验结果来看，1999—2001年公司治理披露的信息含量不显着，但2002年明显提高。此外，在2002年特别引入独立董事变量。但没有通过统计检验．且与我们的假设相反．进一步说明独立苦事在公司治理中遏没有起到其应有的柞用．     

Board gender diversity and environmental,social, and economic value creation: Does family ownership matter?

Prior literature on firm value creation for stakeholders has oversimplified and narrowed the concept of value down to “economic returns.” Although economic returns are fundamental to a firm's core stakeholders (i.e., shareholders), other legitimate stakeholders want “value” beyond economic returns. We define stakeholder value as the financial and nonfinancial returns a firm can offer to its legitimate stakeholders, and empirically investigate whether board gender diversity (BGD) improves our multidimensional measure of value. Using Thomson Reuters' ASSET4 data for U.K.‐listed firms available from Eikon for the period 2007–2017, we report a significant positive relationship between BGD and stakeholder value creation. In particular, BGD increases social and environmental value creation in addition to economic returns. Furthermore, our results suggest that even though gender‐diverse boards are associated with stakeholder value creation in family firms, this is only conspicuous for environmental value creation. The findings suggest that although female directors cater to the interests of broader stakeholder groups, family ownership causes them to mainly focus on environmental stakeholders. The study provides important implications for regulators, stakeholders, and academic scholars.     

中国公司独立董事制度现状剖析及对策研究

作为中国的上市公司,青岛啤酒第一个引入了独立董事制度,到目前为止已有10多年的时间;它在完善公司治理方面确实起到了一定的作用,不可否认的是它还存在着诸如人员选取、激励与约束等方面的问题。     

Corporate Governance and Performance of Indian Firms: The Effect of Board Size and Ownership

The paper reviews international literature on corporate governance and firm performance and investigates the relationship in the Indian context, taking into account the endogeneity in the relationship. Governance parameters include board size, directors’ shareholding, institutional and foreign shareholding, while the fragmentation in shareholding is captured by public shareholding. A simultaneous equation regression model for Tobin’s Q, as a measure of firm performance, is attempted using these variables, while controlling for industry effects and other non-governance variables. The data corresponds to a panel of 340 large, listed Indian firms for the period 1997–2001 spread across 24 industry groups.     

法人治理及其在首创集团的实践

现阶段,规范和完善公司法人治理结构是国有企业改革的主要任务。本文根据首创集团建立法人治理结构的实践。从建立规范有效的董事会到外部董事制度的探索两方面做了深入的分析,提出了有针对性的建设性意见。     

Environmental attitude in the board. Who are the “green directors”? Evidences from Italy

Board members' attitudes towards environmental protection are an important antecedent of how companies define and implement sustainability initiatives, but little is known about directors' attitudes and the factors associated with these. Using survey data on Italian board members, the research sought to explore the relationships between these individual's personal attributes, especially those related to their roles on boards, and their attitudes towards environmental protection. The findings suggest that female directors, directors with financial background, and independent directors are positively related to attitudes towards environmental protection. In the financial sector, younger board members and risk committee members show stronger environmental attitudes. The results could be of interest to policymakers because the board member attributes identified may require a stronger regulatory focus in order to achieve public policy's environmental protection objectives and to governance bodies in terms of defining board committees' composition and selecting “green directors” oriented towards environmental issues.     

How do the ownership structure and board of directors' features impact earnings management? The Spanish case

This paper examines how the ownership structure and board of directors' features determine the managerial opportunistic behavior exemplified in the management of accounting earnings. This study contributes to the literature by investigating the relationship of firm‐level and country‐level corporate governance systems on the earnings management in the Spanish corporate sector. Results reveal that the varying efficiency of the corporate governance systems is reflected in the way in which accounting discretion is performed. We found evidence that earnings management is reduced as the voting rights of the controlling shareholder increased and that there is an inverse U‐shaped relationship between insiders' ownership and the earnings manipulation. Regarding the board characteristics, we observe that larger, independent boards, those with a larger proportion of female members, and those with an audit committee compounded by a greater proportion of outside independent directors oversee managers more efficiently, constraining their capacity to manage earnings. To the contrary, board duality increases the likelihood of opportunistic manipulation of financial reporting. We found that when the institutional environment improves in the Spanish context, the discretionary power of the corporate sector to overstate the financial statements is reduced. The findings prove the necessity of reinforcing the rules and regulations toward a more transparent disclosure of the financial statements.     

Do board sustainability committees contribute to corporate environmental and social performance? The mediating role of corporate social responsibility strategy

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of board sustainability committees on environmental and social performance and to examine the mediating effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy on the relationship between the presence of board sustainability committees and corporate sustainability performance. Using data of U.K. listed firms for the period of 2009–2016, the study employs panel regression analysis and bootstrapping techniques to test study hypotheses. The results suggest that the presence of a sustainability committee improves the effectiveness of CSR strategies. The results also indicate that firms with effective CSR strategies exhibit better environmental and social performance. Further, the empirical results show that the effectiveness of CSR strategy explains the positive relationship between board sustainability committees and corporate environmental and social performance, thus supporting the theoretical framework of the study. The findings of the study shed new light on this research direction and could be of interest to board members, managers, practitioners, investors, policy makers, and regulators that plan to promote sustainability practices and strategies needed for sustainable development.