Corporate Governance and Firm Capabilities: A Comparison of Managerial, Alliance, and Personal Capitalisms

Incentive structures embodied in different systems of corporate governance produce firms with inclinations towards the development of particular capabilities and strategic assets and disinclinations towards the development of others. To the extent that there is an excessive dependence upon any particular type of governance, an economy as a whole will be endowed with both its benefits and costs. As such, governance reform in East Asian economies may be better aimed at cultivating alternative governance institutions alongside existing relational institutions, rather than in converting these governance systems into facsimiles of the so-called Anglo-American model.     

Strategic Innovation and the Administrative Heritage of East Asian Family Business Groups

Using the case of Chinese Family Business Groups (FBGs) in East Asia, this paper examines the relationship between the strategic behaviour exhibited by an organisational form and it's administrative heritage. To do so, we trace the origins of the strategic behaviour that scholars commonly attribute to FBGs to the environmental conditions prevailing during their emergence in the turbulent post-Colonial era of East Asia. We explain how fundamental changes brought about by shifts in the post-Cold war environment of East Asia have confronted FBGs with new opportunities and organising imperatives which their administrative heritages have left them ill-equipped to deal with. In concluding, we explain how the lack of fit between a dominant organisational form and contemporaneous environmental conditions may have significant implications for the organisations themselves and the economies whose landscapes they dominate.     

Southeast Asian capitalism: History,institutions, states,and firms

This paper examines the structures of capitalism in Southeast Asia. Following the lead of Gordon Redding and others, it argues that parallel to varieties of capitalism elsewhere, there are distinctive features to the Southeast Asian business system, but that institutions play a relatively large role compared to firm specific resources or industry structures. Historically, with the exception of Thailand all the countries in the region are former colonies. All including Thailand share a distinctive style of nationalism, and partly as a result of this, all are governed by states that claim to be strong and lay wide claims but whose capacities are low. Typical features of the region, particularly the roles of large business groups and the Chinese minority, also can be interpreted as a result of this history. One of the outcomes of the analysis is an extension of the varieties of capitalism approach along the dimensions of state capacity and state direction, and of the approach to the internationalizing firm along the dimensions of dynamic capacity and control of subsidiaries. A further outcome is a questioning of the traditional picture of indigenous Southeast Asian business people as lacking in entrepreneurial skills, or more broadly of Southeast Asian nations as lacking in entrepreneurial values. Rather, the past history of these countries has resulted in a set of structures that militate against successful entrepreneurial activity.

Change and continuity in Japanese corporate governance

Previous studies on Japanese corporate governance were largely based on the agency theory framework, and can be seen as attempts to understand the unique monitoring mechanisms in the Japanese context. This paper briefly reviews prior research and then discusses the recent changes in the environment that have been affecting Japanese corporate governance. Our central argument is that there is both change and continuity in Japanese Corporate Governance. We also present emerging research from an institutional theory perspective. In this line of research, corporate governance is treated as part of a nation’s institutional framework and hence, researchers need to understand unique institutional arrangements that affect corporate governance practices and their change or continuity.

企业灰色政治的形成及其治理体系

作为在企业中普遍存在的现象,企业灰色政治却很少或并未被纳入企业治理理论研究的范畴。本文尝试从企业灰色政治及其形成的要因与机理入手,揭示了企业灰色政治与企业文化及企业经济之间的内在联系,并基于企业治理的视角,提出了关于企业灰色政治解构的基本治理体系,以期更深层次的思考与研究。     

企业权力争夺和企业治理

企业治理状态不仅取决于人们事先优化的设想，而且取决于企业行为人的权力竞争力。本文分析了不同企业行为人的权力竞争力的决定因子和积极性因子，给出了它们的权力竞争力函数关系和权力竞争力系数函数关系式。剖析了企业权力分割可能出现的权力失衡情况，并提出了权力制衡的制度设计。     

Economic upgrading in a state-coordinated,liberal market economy

Well-established research into different models of capitalism has not been applied well to developing countries. Changing global conditions, institutional differences, and path-dependent histories have forced late developing countries to create models of their own. By and large, however, these models have been less than successful in fostering economic development through technological upgrading. A comparison of skills upgrading in several fast-growing economies in Southeast Asia suggests that perhaps there is a new “State Coordinated, Liberal Market Economy” developmental model that can successfully lead to upgrading-driven economic development. This model combines elements from the Developmental State, Coordinated Market, and Liberal Market Economy models while differing significantly from each.

软件企业R＆D治理边界与结构

软件企业R&D人力资本价值升值及其产权的认可与实现,导致传统的公司治理活动由企业高层向下延伸到了企业的R&D活动中。本文通过探讨“公司治理”的本质及其与“公司经营管理”的区别,较为科学地界定了软件企业R&D治理的概念及其内涵,提出并论证了软件企业R&D治理的边界,在此基础之上,初步构造了软件企业R&D治理的结构要素,并对其进行了特征分析。     

Linking small farmers to modern retail through producer organizations – Experiences with producer companies in India

Since the early 2000s, India’s agro-food sector has undergone rapid transformations towards greater market share of modern food retail. This has impacted Indian agriculture and farmers as supermarkets re-organize supply chains towards more explicit forms of coordination. Compared to other developing countries, little has been said in the Indian context about what role farmer organizations can play to help smallholder farmers specifically, improve their position in those emerging value chains. In this paper, I address this gap and demonstrate that producer companies are a promising tool to strengthen famers’ position in their relationship with supermarket chains in India, but one which needs further improvement.     

组织信息体制、制度化关联与高技术企业集群治理效率

高技术企业集群是一种网络式中间体组织,其组织结构更多的表现为组织之间垂直方向和水平方向的信息关联关系。不同的信息关联形成不同的信息体制。高技术企业集群治理合约分为VC捆绑武治理合约、转换者式治理合约、主导企业式治理合约等三种典型形式．其治理合约的选择受制于信息体制的交易费用大小。信息体制有其特定的制度生存环境,并且具有不同的交易费用结构特征．必须使制度环境与信息体制相匹配。制度化关联与信息体制的耦合互动可以弥补组织信息体制内生的体制缺陷．降低总交易费用。制度环境的扰动和制度的历时关联影响治理合约的治理效率．治理合约需要做出相应的调遣．     

施工企业内部审计增值服务研究

内部审计增值服务作为现代企业发展的重要增长点,不仅能够调整施工企业的管理架构,还能够发挥自身的增值服务功能,以推动施工企业经济效益的快速增长。概述施工企业内部审计增值服务理论及其实现条件,阐述施工企业内部审计增值服务的审计治理与经营流程,分析施工企业内部审计增值服务发展现状及存在的问题,在此基础上提出快速实现施工企业内部审计增值服务的对策,以提升企业内部监管的效率与质量,以推动企业管理的健康可持续发展。     

企业治理之租金视角研究--一个理论框架及其在高科技企业中的应用

本文从租金的角度对企业治理进行了研究,指出组织租金创造与分配是现代企业治理的重要内容,企业家精神在其中占据着关键地位。文章提出一个关于治理的一般性分析框架,在此框架下结合企业生命周期对高科技企业治理进行了动态研究,并对中国高科技企业治理进行了分析。     

完善公司治理结构与企业制度创新

我国国有企业已按建立现代企业制度的要求完成了公司制改造，但完善的公司治理结构却迟迟建立不起来，原因在于企业制度本身还有些问题没有解决，文章分析了美国和日本公司治理结构的差异，指出这种差异不是凭空产生的，而且是企业制度特别是企业产权制度决定的，脱离开企业产权制度而空谈治理结构是不可取的，公司治理结构，需要从企业制度创新上下功夫，首先要对照国际经验考虑我们的企业在产权制度改革上走什么样的路子，离子开这个前提照搬他国企业的治理结构是不妥的，我国企业制度亟待解决的问题是：落实有限责任，推进股权多元化、分散化、法人化。     

国有独资煤炭企业集团公司治理探析

在分析国内国有煤炭企业集团公司治理研究现状的基础上,根据产权理论和公司治理体系理论分析了国有独资煤炭企业集团公司治理存在的问题,提出了改善国有独资煤炭企业集团公司治理的措施。     

国有企业工作经历、企业家才能与企业成长

人力资本的高效配置和企业家才能的充分发挥关系到经济的可持续发展,制度建设如果能促进资源合理流向具有企业家才能的企业家,就能创造更多就业和社会财富。基于全国1997—2016年的私营企业调查数据,本文考察企业家的国有企业工作经历对企业成长的影响。研究结果显示,企业家的国有企业工作经历使得企业在市场扩张和盈利能力等方面表现更好,带来了更高水平的企业成长。机制讨论表明,企业家行为带有明显的烙印效应,国有企业工作经历为企业家带来了更多的社会资本和更高的公司治理水平,从而促进了企业成长。为了缓解由于选择性偏误等带来的内生性,本文采用倾向得分匹配、处理效应模型、代理变量、双差分模型等方法进行处理,结论仍然稳健。中国经济要向资源配置效率改善型模式转变,企业家才能的发挥至关重要,国有企业改革不仅应注重产权等方面的改革,同时也要充分重视国有企业改革带来的人力资本溢出效应。在不断深化国有企业改革的大背景下,本文从企业家才能培育和人力资本配置效应的角度考察国有企业改革问题,倡导国有企业改革进程中进一步营造企业家才能发挥的空间和制度安排,提高人力资本配置效应,从而促进中国经济健康可持续发展。     

Delusions Regarding the Proper Role of Markets and Antitrust Policy

William Curran and Donald Wellington have criticized capitalism,neoclassical economics and antitrust policy. This article defendscapitalistic institutions against both the strong forms ofsocialism as practiced in the former Soviet Union and againstits milder forms as practiced in the welfare states of Europe.The article endorses some of Curran's and Wellington's concernsabout neoclassical economics, but recommends that neoclassicaleconomics be adapted to make it more useful for scientificresearch rather than abandoned outright. Some suggestions areoffered in this direction. The article totally rejects the notionthat antitrust policy can be a tool for correcting the ills ofcapitalism as Curran and Wellington see them, and argues that thegoal of antitrust policy should be to improve capitalism not todestroy it.