同质性还是异质性:创业导向对技术创业团队与新企业绩效关系的调节作用研究

创业团队异质性在较大程度上决定了技术创业的绩效表现,但已有研究并未对"什么样的创业团队结构在何种条件下能取得更好绩效"问题给予合理解释。本文整合高阶理论与社会认同理论的研究框架,在对创业团队异质性分类基础上考察了不同类别创业团队异质性与创业绩效的逻辑关系及创业导向发挥的作用。利用新技术企业调研数据实证研究发现:创业团队社会性异质性与企业绩效呈倒U关系;功能性异质性中的产业经验异质性、职能经验异质性分别与企业绩效呈正向和倒U关系。风险承担性与先动性强化了团队异质性与创业绩效的倒U关系,而创新性作用则相反。研究结论对技术创业绩效来源研究有突出的理论启示,对技术创业团队组建与管理亦有重要的实践意义。     

新企业创业团队的治理机制与团队绩效的关系

现有研究主要从团队构成和合作过程两个视角来解释创业团队对新企业绩效的影响.论文从创业团队治理这个新的视角研究新企业中的上述问题,通过大样本实证研究表明:1)新企业创业团队既需要正式契约、股权安排等正式治理机制,也需要团队建设性争论等非正式治理机制;2)签订正式契约对创业团队绩效的影响具有企业阶段特性,它在企业创立2年之后有显著的正向影响作用,但在创立不超过2年时期,影响较弱;3)绝对控股权安排对创业团队绩效的影响也具有企业阶段特性,在企业创立不超过2年时期,存在显著正向影响,但在创立超过2年之后,影响变为不显著;4)创业团队遵循团队建设性争论能显著提高创业团队绩效.     

创业团队异质性与新企业绩效:领导者乐观心理的调节作用

异质性是创业团队的重要属性,也是创业研究的热点。本文研究将异质性分为两类:任务相关异质性和身份相关异质性,并分别讨论了两类异质性对新企业绩效的不同影响以及团队领导者乐观心理的调节作用。实证研究发现,在任务相关异质性中,行业经验异质性正向影响新企业绩效,而在身份相关异质性中,年龄相关异质性负向影响新企业绩效;同时,团队领导者的乐观心理正向调节行业和职能经验异质性与新企业绩效之间的关系。     

高管团队职能异质性与企业绩效关系研究:基于管理者认知和团队冲突的中介分析

高管团队的职能特征如何反映到企业绩效中一直是管理领域研究的重点,但是其实证检验结果呈现出复杂化的特征,一致性的结论尚未达成。本文从高阶梯理论和信息处理理论出发,较为全面地探索高管团队职能异质性如何影响企业绩效。研究结果表明:(1)高管团队职能异质性对企业绩效水平有负向的影响;(2)高管团队职能异质性会显著促进管理者认知集中性和复杂性的提高;(3)管理者认知集中性和复杂性的提高会进一步促进绩效水平的提高;(4)管理者认知是高管团队职能异质性影响企业绩效水平的中介机制;(5)高管团队职能异质性的提高会显著促进团队冲突的提高;(6)团队冲突的增强会抑制企业绩效水平的提高;(7)团队冲突是职能异质性影响企业绩效水平的中介机制。     

创业团队、正式结构与新企业绩效

利用天津市9个科技企业孵化器中98家成立3年以内的新企业调查数据,采用层级回归模型,探讨创业者在初创期是否应将宝贵资源投入于组织结构建设.突破以往按照有无组织结构或机械/有机结构的简单分类,检验正式组织结构的两个关键属性(角色规范性和职能专业化)对新企业绩效的影响,并考察创业团队特征能否解释新企业之间在初始组织结构形态上的差异.实证结果表明,角色规范性显著负向影响新企业绩效,职能专业化对新企业绩效有积极促进作用.同时,创业团队组成特征中只有产业经验异质性显著影响新企业的角色规范性和职能专业化,性别和年龄异质性只是有助于角色规范性,职能经验异质性则与两个组织结构特征均无显著相关关系.     

高管团队薪酬差异与企业绩效关系研究:行业特征的跨层调节作用

高管团队薪酬差异与企业绩效关系是公司治理和人力资源管理领域的热点议题之一,但已有的研究结论并不一致.本研究基于锦标赛理论和社会比较理论,以992家上市公司为样本,运用阶层线性模型研究二者之间的关系及行业特征的调节作用.结果发现:(1)高管团队垂直薪酬差异与企业绩效呈正相关关系;(2)高管团队垂直薪酬差异与水平薪酬差异对企业绩效具有交互作用;(3)行业内高管薪酬差异程度对高管团队垂直薪酬差异与企业绩效关系存在跨层负向调节作用,同时对水平薪酬差异与企业绩效关系存在跨层正向调节作用;(4)行业内技术密集性对高管团队水平薪酬差异与企业绩效关系存在跨层正向调节作用.本研究为不同行业特征下的企业进行合理的高管团队薪酬结构设计提供了借鉴与参考.     

高管团队职能背景对企业绩效的影响:以中国信息技术行业上市公司为例

本文以2004-2010年我国信息技术行业上市公司为研究样本,加入企业绩效的动态性和多样性,基于社会类化理论和信息决策理论,较为全面地探讨了高管团队职能背景对企业绩效的影响.研究结果表明,社会类化理论更能解释高管团队对企业绩效产生的影响.高管团队职能背景异质性不利于企业绩效的提升,尤其对短期绩效和创新绩效有显著的负向影响.在三种基本职能背景中,“生产型”职能背景为主的高管团队对短期绩效、长期绩效、创新绩效和海外绩效均有正向影响,且影响最大.“多职能背景”为主的高管团队有助于企业海外绩效的提升,但对企业创新绩效有显著的负向影响.从三种特殊职业经历来看,具有海外背景的高管对企业短期绩效、长期绩效、创新绩效和海外绩效均有显著的正向影响;而外部空降的高管,会严重阻碍企业的创新发展;有政府背景的高管则会提高企业的海外绩效.     

国际化战略实施与高层管理团队构成实证研究

利用信息处理理论和高阶梯队理论考察国际化战略实施对高层管理团队特征(年龄、任期、教育水平及其异质性、团队规模等)选择的要求.研究结果表明:企业国际化战略的实施需要拥有某些特定属性的高层管理团队;企业国际化程度越高,要求高层管理团队任期越短、任期异质性越小,而且团队规模和教育水平异质性越大;良好的制度建设和经营管理是确保选择合理的高层管理团队执行国际化战略的重要影响因素.     

高管团队人口统计特征对纺织和信息技术公司经营绩效的影响

运用中国纺织业和信息技术业上市公司的实证数据,本研究发现,高管团队组成特征比CEO个人特征解释更多的企业绩效变异。本研究还发现,公司短期绩效的正相关因素有团队规模和平均任期,公司长期绩效的正相关因素是平均教育水平,公司长期绩效的负相关因素是团队规模。在信息技术公司,高管团队的平均任期与公司的长期绩效负相关,任期异质性与公司的长期业绩正相关,高管团队平均年龄与企业当期绩效显著负相关。     

创业导向与创新绩效：高管团队特征和市场动态性的影响

创业导向对创新绩效的提升具有重要的影响,但创业导向与创新绩效的关系还可能受高管团队特征和市场动态性的影响。根据基于注意力的观点,对创业导向、创新绩效、高管团队的异质性、高管团队的共同愿景和市场动态性的关系进行研究,探讨高管团队的异质性和共同愿景对创业导向与创新绩效关系的调节作用,并进一步研究这种调节作用是否受市场动态性的影响。利用在广东、江苏、山东、陕西和河南5地收集的264份调查问卷,采用多元线性回归和调节效应的检验方法对研究假设进行实证检验。研究结果表明,创业导向对创新绩效有正向促进作用,高管团队的异质性有助于加强创业导向与创新绩效的关系。在稳定的市场环境下,高管团队的异质性对创业导向与创新绩效关系的调节效应更强;在不考虑环境动态性和环境动态性较低的情况下,高管团队的共同愿景对创业导向与创新绩效关系的调节效应不显著,但在动态性较高的市场环境下,可以显著地正向调节创业导向与创新绩效的关系。     

A cyclical view of the relationship between corporate governance and strategic management

The vast majority of research on the relationship between corporate governance and strategic management focuses on the impact of corporate governance on strategic management. In this article we propose a cyclical model, highlighting that strategic decisions can also affect corporate governance through shaping firm ownership structure. We discuss the impacts of strategic decisions on firm ownership structure and corporate governance in the contexts of publicly traded firms, private firms, and the privatization of state-owned enterprises. We hope that our cyclical model can promote researchers to develop a more complete view about the relationships between strategic management, ownership structure, and corporate governance.     

Capital structure,managerial ownership and firm performance: evidence from Egypt

This paper focuses on an important issue, which has generally received less attention in corporate governance literature, being the effect of managerial ownership on the relationship between debt and firm performance. By employing a sample of Egyptian listed firms, the generalized least squares method, as a panel data technique, is used to examine the joint effect of debt and managerial ownership on various measures of firm performance (i.e., Tobin’s q and ROA). The results reveal that managerial ownership moderates the relationship between debt and firm performance, with the relationship being negative (positive) in presence (absence) of managerial ownership concentration. The implication of this finding is that the optimal capital structure is more likely to be contingent on contextual variables as well as the roles, power, and stakes of key internal and external actors. Put simply, the effectiveness of one corporate governance mechanism (i.e., debt) is more likely to be contingent on the effect of other existed corporate governance mechanisms, and hence, there is not one best arrangement of either capital structure or ownership structure, but different arrangements are not equally good.     

A finance professional who understands the family: family firms’ specific requirements for non-family chief financial officers

Non-family chief financial officers (CFOs) are often the first non-family members recruited into a family firm’s top management team. Based on the extant literature and with reference to the resource-based view of the firm, family firm peculiarities can also be expected to affect the requirements family firms look for when hiring non-family CFOs. To analyze these requirements, this paper draws on interviews with family firm owners, chief executive officers and non-family CFOs. Family firms’ specific requirements for CFOs are analyzed along four dimensions, namely education, professional know-how, career path and social/interpersonal skills, and 11 propositions are then developed. The presented findings suggest that family firm owners seek to integrate non-family CFOs with professional non-family firm experience in order to enrich the family firm’s resource pool. In turn, non-family CFOs are required to adapt to the specific governance characteristics prevalent in family firms.     

Effect of the board of directors and the audit committee on firm performance: a panel data analysis

This research examines the relationship between independent directors, the audit committee (AC), and firm performance, taking into account the impact of the chief executive officer’s powers and block shareholders. We use the maximum likelihood estimator, based on agency theory assumptions and cylindered panel data, to examine three models of firm performance. The results show that the independence of the board is reflected clearly by increased economic and equity performance of the firm. However, an AC that is fully independent or meets frequently is associated with lower firm performance. Unlike pension funds, institutional shareholders can be considered an effective control mechanism in the context of France. Our results development includes advanced explanations for market liquidity and shareholders’ portfolios. The study period ends before the European regulation on ACs came into effect in 2008. This allows for an appreciation of soft law in French corporate governance. It also lets us compare the data with the way firms operate their boards one decade later. The evidence provides useful guidelines on the supremacy of soft law in corporate governance and suggests that the composition and functioning of the board of directors should be moderated based on the firms’ context. The specificity of the cylindered panel data helps to better examine the impact of the board and AC’s independence and functioning in French corporate governance structure.     

机构投资者持股与上市公司违规行为的实证研究

本文采用部分可观测的Bivariate Probit估计方法,对2001年至2009年中国1729家上市公司进行回归检验,发现机构投资者持股比例降低了公司违规行为倾向,同时增加了公司违规行为被稽查的可能性。该结论在控制了机构投资者变量内生性的因素后仍旧稳健。进一步研究表明,相比公司经营违规,机构投资者对信息披露违规倾向的影响更强。另外,相比证券机构投资者,养老保险基金、社保基金、企业年金持股的公司中违规公司比例更低。除此以外,机构投资者对公司违规的抑制与检举作用并不受其它公司治理变量的影响。本文的研究表明中国机构投资者在预防与打击上市公司违规行为方面发挥了重要的作用,并且也为上市公司与监管部门提供了治理和防范企业违规的线索。     

制度环境、公司治理对企业竞争优势的影响研究——基于中国上市公司的经验证据

如何通过外部制度和内部制度的安排延续企业的竞争优势,是制度变迁背景下中国企业面临的核心问题.本文以2002年-2005年的中国上市公司为样本,基于国内地区差距,实证分析了制度环境和公司治理时企业竞争优势的影响.回归结果发现,政府支持市场化程度、经济法律环境水平、股权集中度、股权竞争度、董事会独立性、专业委员会设置程度以及股东参与决策程度与企业竞争优势显著正相关.研究结果表明,好的制度环境与有效的公司治理能提高企业的竞争优势;企业持续竞争优势的源泉应包含以政府为主体的宏观层次的制度竞争和以企业为主体的微观层次的公司治理竞争.     

Internationalization of family firms: the effect of ownership and governance

Despite family firm’s dominant role in economies worldwide, there is little empirical knowledge on their internationalization. Drawing on a sample of Austrian firms, this paper investigates the impact of family influence and various governance factors on internationalization. The findings reveal an inverted U-shaped relationship between family influence and internationalization. Family firms with medium family influence are the most internationally active companies. This indicates that concerning internationalization the advantages of being a family firm are highest when the family’s ownership share and involvement in management and governance boards is not too extensive. Additionally, neither the incumbent generation, nor the level of non-family executives in the management board, nor the existence of a supervisory board has a significant influence on going international. Since advisory boards seem to foster internationalization, they might be an adjuvant means of equipping family firms with the necessary capabilities, know-how and contacts to operate internationally.     

我国上市公司配股前后业绩变化及其影响因素的实证研究

本文首次系统考查了我国上市公司配股融资后的业绩表现及其影响因素。实证研究表明,我国上市公司配股融资后业绩出现显著的下降,和没有配股的配比公司相比,配股公司的业绩要好于配比公司,但在配股后第3年,开始逊色于配比公司,并且,公司配股后业绩的下降幅度大于配比公司。本文首次发现,自由现金流假说能很好解释我国上市公司配股后长期业绩下滑的影响因素,公司配股前的自由现金流量越多,公司配股后的业绩下降得越快,公司的股权集中度低与投资水平低的上市公司,配股后业绩下降得越快。另外,公司的成长性越高,资产规模越大,公司配股后业绩下降的更快。     

The Bind that Ties: Socioemotional Wealth Preservation in Family Firms

A growing body of research shows that family firms are different from other organizations in significant ways. In this paper we review this literature by examining how family firms differ from nonfamily firms along five broad categories of managerial decisions. These categories encompass a set of key organizational choices concerning management processes, firm strategies, corporate governance, stakeholder relations and business venturing. We argue that socioemotional wealth or affective endowment of family owners explain many of these choices. We also examine some contingency factors (namely family stage, firm size, firm hazard, and the presence of nonfamily shareholders) that moderate the influence of socioemotional wealth preservation as a point of reference when making managerial decisions in family firms. Lastly, we explore the firm performance consequences of family ownership.     

The Interplay Between Employee and Firm Customer Orientation: Substitution Effect and the Contingency Role of Performance‐Related Rewards

This paper identifies and explains a potential tension between a firm's emphasis on customer orientation (CO) and the extent to which employees value CO as a success factor for individual performance. Based on self‐determination theory and CO implementation research, the authors propose that firm CO may represent both autonomous and controlled motivations for CO, but that employees’ CO is more strongly linked to individual performance when employees experience solely autonomous motivation. Hence, the authors expect a substitution effect whereby the link between employees’ CO and their performance is weaker when firm CO is high. Furthermore, the authors examine a boundary condition for the previous hypothesis and propose that performance‐contingent rewards have a positive effect on the internalization of the extrinsic motivation stemming from firm CO. Two multilevel studies with 979 employees and 201 top management team members from 132 firms support these hypotheses. Against previous research, these findings offer a new perspective on the effectiveness of CO initiatives, propose employees’ motivational states as the theoretical explanation for the heterogeneity in the link between employee CO and performance, and reappraise the role of performance‐contingent rewards in CO research. Managerial implications for the effective implementation of customer‐oriented initiatives within firms are provided.