董事会特征对环境信息披露影响的实证研究——基于河北省上市公司数据

董事会特征是决定企业经济行为的重要影响因素之一,是实现环境信息披露的微观基础。本文以河北省34家上市公司2010-2011年报为样本,对上市公司董事会特征与环境信息披露水平进行了实证研究。研究结果表明:独立董事比例、董事会会议频次与环境信息披露水平存在显著的正相关关系;董事会规模、两职状态与环境信息披露水平存在不显著正相关关系。     

董事会特征对环境信息披露影响的实证研究--基于河北省上市公司数据

董事会特征是决定企业经济行为的重要影响因素之一,是实现环境信息披露的微观基础。本文以河北省34家上市公司2010-2011年报为样本,对上市公司董事会特征与环境信息披露水平进行了实证研究。研究结果表明：独立董事比例、董事会会议频次与环境信息披露水平存在显著的正相关关系;董事会规模、两职状态与环境信息披露水平存在不显著正相关关系。     

制造业上市公司治理结构与自愿性信息披露关系研究——以泛长三角为例

本文以泛长三角地区沪市、深市556家上市公司为样本,检验了公司治理结构与上市公司自愿性信息披露的相关性。结果表明：公司所在地、独立董事比例、监事会规模、是否设置审计委员会、董事长与CEO是否两职合一、董事会规模、是否出具无保留审计意见自愿信息披露水平正相关。而公司规模、董事会会议次数与上市公司自愿性信息披露不相关,市盈率与上市公司自愿性信息披露负相关。     

董事会特征与环境信息披露研究——基于我国制造业上市公司的调查分析

本文选取我国制造行业的598家上市公司作为研究对象,对其2006年至2008年年报和社会责任报告进行了分析,结果发现：董事会特征中的董事会规模、独立董事比例、董事会薪酬水平、董事会持股比例、董事会会议次数与环境信息披露行为的关系不显著,并提出了相关建议。     

独立董事与中航工业上市公司绩效研究

本文以中航工业上市公司公开披露的相关数据为基础,分析独立董事年龄、独立董事的薪酬和独立董事亲自出席董事会的比例与公司绩效之间的关系,并根据研究结论提出了相应的建议.     

董事会特征与盈余管理关系的实证研究——基于我国中小板上市公司的面板数据

文章实证研究了我国中小板上市公司董事会特征与盈余管理之间的相互关系,得到如下结论:董事会规模与盈余管理之间不相关;独立董事到会率、董事会会议频率、财务董事比例均与盈余管理负相关;独立董事工作地点与上市公司地点一致性与盈余管理正相关;董事长与总经理两职兼任与盈余管理之间存在不显著的负相关关系;独立董事比例、未领取薪酬董事比例、董事持股比例与盈余管理之间均存在不显著的正相关关系。为了凸显研究结论的价值性,文章还进行了主板上市公司的对比检验,并提出相关建议。     

我国上市公司董事会特征与公司财务风险关系的实证研究

公司董事会特征对财务风险的形成有重要影响作用。文章选取沪、深两市1112家上市公司2007-2009年数据为样本,针对我国上市公司董事会特征对公司财务风险的影响进行实证研究,结果表明:董事会规模、董事长与总经理两职分离程度、董事长期薪酬与财务风险呈显著负相关关系;独立董事比例、董事短期薪酬与公司财务风险呈显著正相关关系;董事会会议频率与财务风险不相关。     

董事会特征对会计信息披露质量的影响——来自我国上市公司的经验证据

检验了我国董事会制度改革对强制性和自愿性信息披露质量的影响。研究发现:独立董事比例、独立董事超过1/3、"二元"领导权结构、财务专业背景的独立董事比例、审计委员会的存在、以及公司规模和雇佣"四大"与会计信息披露质量成显著正相关;灰色董事和内部董事超过1/3、配股动机与会计信息披露质量成显著负相关;而董事会规模、董事会会议次数、CEO变更、董事持股比例和财务杠杠与会计信息披露质量不显著。此外,还发现独立董事超过1/3、"二元"领导权结构、财务专业背景的独立董事比例和审计委员会的存在是影响强制性和自愿性信息披露质量最为显著的因素。     

我国上市公司自愿披露内部控制自我评估报告的影响因素分析

本文利用沪深两市上市公司2007到2009年年度报告中自愿披露内部控制信息相关数据,基于公司治理的视角对我国上市公司自愿披露内部控制自我评估报告的原因进行理论分析和实证检验。结果表明,内部控制自评披露：（1）与上市公司设置审计委员会、投资者法律保护程度、产品市场竞争程度及公司规模呈显著正相关关系;（2）与董事会人数、证交所治理机制呈显著正相关关系;（3）与公司控制权、社会公众持股比例、独立董事以及债务资产比率没有显著相关性。     

基于公司治理视角的信息披露影响因素分析

本文以深交所信息披露考评结果作为信息披露水平的代理变量,对公司治理因素与信息披露水平之间的关系进行实证分析,从而发现影响上市公司信息披露水平的决定性因素。研究表明,上市公司产权性质、股权集中度、机构投资者持股比例、高管持股比例、董事会规模、审计机构权威性、审计意见与交易状态等因素对信息披露水平有显著影响;提高流通股比例和独立董事比例、董事长与总经理两职分离、设置审计委员会等制度设计对信息披露水平的作用并不显著。     

The Association between Board Composition and Different Types of Voluntary Disclosure

Abstract

This study examines the association between board composition and voluntary disclosure in annual reports. In particular, it addresses the incentives within the agency theory framework for both inside and independent directors to disclosure additional information voluntarily. Further, it provides evidence on the relation between the overall total voluntary disclosure and the components of voluntary disclosure, such as forward looking, strategic, non-financial and historical financial disclosures and board composition. Our sample is based on 181 Australian companies. We have developed and hand-collected 67 items from annual reports to develop the total voluntary disclosure index and the sub-indices of voluntary disclosure. Using two-stage multivariate analyses, our results provide some important insights. First, we find that there is a positive association between board composition and the voluntary disclosure of information in annual reports. Second, we also find that independent boards provide more voluntary disclosure of forward looking information and strategic information. However, board structure has no bearing on the voluntary disclosure of non-financial and historical financial information. Our findings are enhanced by different empirical specifications and sensitivity tests.     

What have we learnt about board gender diversity as a business strategy? The appointment of board subcommittees

This paper explores whether a board's gender diversity influences the voluntary formation of its board subcommittees. Female board directorship may become a business strategy for firms if it affects the appointment of board subcommittees. We hypothesize that the voluntary creation of board subcommittees is affected by the presence of female directors on boards; the presence of independent, executive, and institutional female directors; and the proportion of shares held by female directors on boards. Board gender diversity has been measured as a proportion and with Blau's index. The results show that independent female directors are positively associated with the likelihood of voluntarily setting up all or some of the committees and a supervision and control committee. The presence of executive female directors negatively influences the probability of forming all or some of the committees, an executive committee and a supervision and control committee. The percentage of shares held by female directors has a positive effect on the voluntary creation of an executive committee. The findings also report that women directors and institutional female directors do not contribute to the voluntary creation of board subcommittees. Our evidence shows that female board directorship impacts the demand of internal control mechanisms such as board subcommittees, suggesting that firms should take it into account as a business strategy. The main implications derived from this research are relevant for Spanish policymakers and researchers because board gender diversity may play a significant role in the decision‐making processes of firms and may influence firms' outcomes.     

Corporate social and environmental disclosure as a sustainable development tool provided by board sub-committees: Do women directors play a relevant moderating role?

The aim of this research is to examine the impact of three audit committee characteristics on corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR) disclosure: the existence of an audit committee, audit committee independence, and audit committee financial expertise. Moreover, this research analyzes the moderating effect of board gender diversity between these audit committees' attributes and CSR reporting. The results of analyzing 13,178 firm-year observations of non-financial companies show that the presence of an audit committee and audit committee financial expertise are positively associated with CSR disclosure. However, a higher proportion of non-executive directors in audit committees has a negative effect on the disclosure of CSR information. These findings suggest that some audit committees' features play an important role in ensuring the reporting of environmental, social, and economic information. Our evidence also indicates that the presence of female directors on boards increases the positive impact of financial expert membership of audit committees on CSR disclosure, while women directors moderate any negative effect of the percentage of independent directors on audit committees on CSR reporting by increasing the latter. In addition, female directors moderate the positive impact of the existence of an audit committee on the disclosure of CSR information by reducing the latter.     

董事会特征与企业现金持有水平的实证研究

利用我国2002-2006年上市公司的会计数据和公司治理数据,从董事会特征的视角出发,实证研究了董事长与总经理两职兼任情况、女性董事比率、董事会规模、独立董事比率、董事持股比率、董事会会议次数与现金持有水平的相关关系。结果表明:董事持股比率、独立董事比率、两职兼任情况、女性董事比率、董事会规模与企业现金持有水平显著正相关;董事会会议次数与现金持有水平显著负相关。     

上市公司独立董事与公司业绩相关性的实证研究

本文采用面板数据模型,从独立董事的比例、时间精力、职业背景、激励等多个角度考察独立董事与公司业绩的相关性,并测试了独立董事比例的大小对公司业绩的影响。研究发现:独立董事具有代理人的性质,在目前独立董事的胜任力和实现力得不到保证的情况下,独立董事无助于改善公司业绩,当独立董事逐渐成为董事会中的多数甚至绝对多数时,独立董事比例与公司业绩负相关,凸显出独立董事的代理人特征;而且独立董事的薪酬与公司业绩正相关,说明独立董事需要报酬的激励。     

Corporate voluntary greenhouse gas reporting: Stakeholder pressure and the mediating role of the chief executive officer

The study sheds light on the extent to which various stakeholder pressures influence voluntary disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and how the impact is explained and moderated chief executive officer (CEO) characteristics of 215 FTSE 350 listed U.K. companies for the year 2011. The study developed a classification of GHG emission disclosure based on the guidelines of GHG Protocol, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Global Framework for Climate Risk Disclosure using content analysis. Evidence from the study suggests that some stakeholder pressure (regulatory, creditor, supplier, customer, and board control) positively impacts on GHG disclosure information by firms. We found that stakeholder pressure in the form of regulatory, mimetic, and shareholders pressure positively influenced the disclosure of GHG information. We also found that creditor pressure also had a significant negative relationship with GHG disclosure. Although CEO age had a direct negative effect on GHG voluntary disclosure, its moderation effect on stakeholder pressure influence on GHG disclosure was only significant on regulatory pressure.     

董事会特征与审计质量的关系——基于中国民营上市公司的经验证据

民营上市公司董事会特征与审计质量存在一定的相关性,如董事会会议次数、董事报酬与审计质量存在显著的正相关关系;独立董事的出勤率与审计质量存在显著的负相关关系;董事会规模、董事会独立性、董事会领导结构与审计质量存在不显著的正相关关系;审计委员会的设立与审计质量存在不显著的负相关关系.     

上市公司自愿性披露信息若干问题研究

随着我国资本市场的发展,上市公司自愿性披露信息将呈增长趋势,加强自愿性披露信息的研究,有利于推动和引导我国上市公司自愿性披露信息工作的开展。本文对自愿性披露信息进行了价值分析,总结了影响上市公司自愿性披露信息的主要因素,并提出提高上市公司自愿性披露信息质量政策的若干建议。