水信息披露、机构投资者异质性与企业价值——来自我国A股制造业上市公司的经验证据

以我国2011-2016年A股制造业上市公司为研究样本,本文采用面板回归模型实证检验了企业水信息披露对企业价值的影响以及异质机构投资者在二者关系中的调节作用。结果表明：目前企业水信息披露水平整体较低,其对企业价值有显著的负向影响;在该影响中,机构投资者整体有显著的正向调节作用,压力抵制型机构投资者有显著的负向调节作用,而压力敏感型机构投资者无显著的调节作用。     

研发部门体制改革与企业创新行为——以A股制造业上市公司为例

结合沪深A股制造业上市公司年报数据,构建Tobit回归模型对企业研发行为进行影响因素分析和稳健性检验。结论发现,研发强度与企业规模、大股东持股比例、经营年限负相关,但与技术人员人数占比正相关;此外,销售毛利率、存货周转率、现金比率以及市销率、市净率等指标也明显左右着企业创新积极性的发挥。为此旨在透过研发部门体制改革推动企业创新发展,建议由传统龙头企业拆分设立研发型子公司,对新兴初创企业引入战略投资者;鼓励企业将生产、销售业务逐步外包,探索建立多元化内源性融资渠道;试点成立创新型创投、私募等专项基金,制定针对性财税政策扶持等。     

复杂性科学视角下企业成长研究梳理与启示

作为研究和处理复杂系统和行为的工具，复杂性科学为企业成长研究提供了新的起点。从复杂性科学的背景出发，总结了目前企业成长研究的基本共识、内容体系，并为企业管理与决策实践提供指导。     

内部控制审计制度的执行增加了审计费用吗

文章检验了内部控制审计制度执行前后内部控制审计对审计市场收费的影响,同时将样本公司按照不同板块及规模进行分类,研究不同公司内部控制审计制度对审计收费影响的差异性.研究结果发现:内部控制审计制度执行后相对于执行前,小型公司的审计费用显著增加;大型公司中,只有披露内部控制审计报告公司的审计费用显著上升,而未披露内部控制审计报告公司的审计费用没有显著变化.内部控制审计制度执行后,中小板和创业板小型公司无论是否披露内部控制审计报告,其审计费用没有显著差异;而大型公司中,披露内部控制审计报告的审计费用显著更高.此外,主板公司无论大型还是小型,披露内部控制审计报告的,其审计费用均显著更高.内部控制审计制度执行后,首次执行内部控制审计的小型和大型公司的审计费用均显著增加.研究结论为规范审计市场的审计收费提供了参考.     

Entrenchment in publicly traded family firms: Evidence from the S&P 500

Family involvement in corporate governance through ownership, management, and board membership presents a unique dilemma for understanding the strategic impetus and costs of entrenchment decisions. The presence of shared family ties and the family-centered goals of firm principals call to question the applicability of extant agency arguments regarding the nature and antecedents of managerial entrenchment. Exploring this, we develop and test a model of family firm-specific determinants (i.e., family ownership and family's involvement in management and governance) of entrenchment in publicly traded firms by drawing upon principal-principal agency theory. Findings of the empirical analysis of family owned S&P 500 firms suggest family firms are motivated to entrench managers when doing so supports the pursuit of family-centric goals. However, the extent to which entrenchment supports such goals varies at different levels of family ownership.     

Environmental practices and firm performance in emerging markets: the mediating role of product quality

Environmental practices have not received as much research attention in emerging market contexts as traditional topics like quality. However, the importance of environmental practices for a firm’s production strategy has been increasing at an unprecedented level across the globe. Our research objective is, therefore, to investigate the interplay between environmental practices and quality in the pursuit of firm performance. Relying on 492 responses from Turkish manufacturers to test our hypotheses, we show that environmental practices directly improve the quality of products over and above the effect of quality management practices in emerging markets. Product quality, in turn, is important for increasing firm performance, acting as a mediator for the positive effects of environmental practices on performance. Thus, we reveal that product quality functions as an instrumental conduit between environmental practices and firm performance in emerging markets like Turkey where stakeholder pressures are weak, and regulations are often not properly enforced.     

The triggers of local and distant search: Relative magnitude and persistence in explaining acquisition relatedness

Research on problemistic search has assumed negative attainment discrepancy to be the trigger of both local and distant search. Extending this research, we present and compare two additional triggers: (1) relative attainment discrepancy, which reflects how much a firm's attainment discrepancy deviates from its past negative attainment discrepancies; and (2) persistent attainment discrepancy, which reflects how often the firm experiences below-aspirations performance. Our triggers for distant search model a behavioral explanation for the timing and relatedness of acquisitions. We find support for baseline arguments of problemistic search whereby firms increase both industry- and skill-related acquisitions when they perform below aspirations. When they persistently perform below aspirations, however, this likelihood is reduced and firms engage in acquisitions that are more unrelated, thereby providing support for the notion of expanding search boundaries from local to distant search. Of the two triggers of distant search proposed, relative attainment discrepancy does not induce firms to expand search boundaries. Our results indicate that persistent attainment discrepancy is a key construct to consider when studying the expansion of search boundaries.     

Managing dependency in China outsourcing relationships

Abstract

This paper examines manufacturing firms’ use of guanxi and formal control to address dependence on suppliers and achieve desired outsourcing performance in China. Using survey data collected from manufacturing firms operating in China, a structural equation model is used to test the research model. The results suggest that manufacturing firms with high dependence on suppliers build Chinese guanxi with those suppliers to overcome the dependence and enhance outsourcing performance. In addition, Chinese guanxi also appears to facilitate the use of formal control, which was also found to have a positive relationship with outsourcing performance. This paper contributes to the literature by illustrating the importance of guanxi in achieving desired outsourcing performance in the China context, particularly in the case where a manufacturer perceives high dependency on its major supplier.     

中国制造业企业创新行为的观测和实证研究 ——基于浙江省制造业1454家企业问卷调查的分析

 本文在浙江省制造业1454家企业大样本调查问卷的基础上,在微观层面研究了企业创新行为以及影响因素。首先利用统计分析的方法考察了企业创新投入的特征、创新投入的行业分布以及创新投入的产出绩效,并且发现了企业规模与R&;D强度之间呈现倒U型关系,这与安同良等人发现的倾斜V型关系的结论不同。其次运用计量分析的方法在有效控制了企业所处行业的技术水平差异、企业产权结构、政府资金扶持、企业品牌和企业设备技术水平后,研究发现：企业规模与企业创新投入之间也呈现较明显的倒U型关系,并且存在规模“拐点”;企业知识产权战略对企业创新投入具有明显的促进作用;出口贸易对企业创新投入并不显著,但发达国家特别是针对发展中国家设置的技术性贸易壁垒的技术标准化要求对企业创新投入有比较明显的促进作用;而企业集聚对企业的创新投入的影响并不确定。     

技术创新障碍:一种产业组织学的方法

本文从产业组织理论角度 ,对我国技术创新在产业组织方面存在的三大障碍 ,即市场结构障碍、企业行为障碍和经济绩效障碍进行相对系统的分析。同时将技术创新纳入SCP框架 ,并结合制度、政府政策等方面内容 ,提出消除技术创新障碍的产业组织对策 ,希望能为我国企业技术创新提供一种相对系统的新思路