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The Effect of CEO's Political Connection on Firm Performance: The Mediating Effect of Government Subsidies

中国民营企业首席执行官的政治关系对企业绩效的影响: 政府补贴的中介效应

  • Received : 2021.08.09
  • Accepted : 2021.09.20
  • Published : 2021.09.30
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Abstract

This article examines the effect of CEO's political connections on firm performance in Chinese private firms. Following the upper echelon theory and human capital theory, CEO's personal characteristics affect the strategic decision-making of the firm, and it is also firm-specific advantages that work as the human capital for the sustainable growth of the firm. In this regard, this article tries to empirically confirm whether CEO's political connections have positive effects on firm performance as the firm's human capital by dividing the Chinese local governments, which is a direct subject of political connections hierarchically. In addition, this research examines the mediating effects of government subsidies between political connections and firm performance. To verify these questions, we use a sample of 9,849 observations of 1,451 private firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2008 to 2016, the results show that the CEO's political connections are positively related to firm performance. Moreover, we find that only political connections with the provincial local government had a positive effect on firm performance. It indicates that values and influences of human capital held by CEOs only affect when they are related to the highest local government. Finally, when CEOs have political connections with city-level, it shows complete mediating effect. It provides empirical evidence to find that CEO's political connections affect firm performance as the results of non-market strategic of firms.

本研究通过高层梯队理论和人力资本理论探究中国民营企业首席执行官的政治关系为企业所带来的影响。首席执行官的个人特征对企业的战略决策产生直接或间接的影响,同时可作为企业特有的优势,为企业的可持续发展发挥着人力资本的作用。对此,本研究通过实证探究中国民营企业的首席执行官所拥有的政治关系是否对企业的人力资本企业绩效产生积极影响。另外,本研究将政治关系的直接对象-- 中国地方政府分为不同阶层,考察政治关系的人力资本价值和影响力的差异,而且预测政府补贴可以在这一关系中起到中介的作用。为了验证这一论点,以2008年至2016年间在中国上海和深圳证券交易所上市的1,451个企业的共9,849个观测值为对象进行分析,结果确认首席执行官的政治关系对企业绩效产生正向(+)的影响。另外,从各阶层的地方政府来看,只有与作为最高层地方政府的省级地方政府有政治关系时,才能对企业绩效产生积极影响；同时,只有在首席执行官拥有的人力资本的价值和影响力与省级地方政府有关联时才能发挥上述的积极影响。另外,政府补贴的中介效应在与地级地方政府有政治关系时,会具备完全中介的属性,进而对企业经营成果产生积极影响。可以说,地方政府在政府补贴支付中起到核心作用,因此经营者的政治关系常被运用为企业的非市场战略。

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