重男轻女观念会加剧当地家族企业的机会主义动机吗——以家族企业上市公司为例

DOES SON PREFERENCE MOTIVATE LOCAL FIRMS’ OPPORTUNISTIC BEHAVIOR——Evidence of Listed Chinese Family Firms

本文基于重男轻女观念的视角,探究地区文化是否会影响当地家族企业的机会主义动机。本文研究发现,重男轻女地区的家族企业更愿意安排男性家族成员担任CEO等重要职位,更多地引入家族成员参与企业经营。由于担心这种机会主义行为,外部投资者对当地家族企业的投资更为谨慎。本文从地区文化的视角阐释了家族企业的异质性,推动了已有研究从“家族企业与非家族企业有何不同”向“不同地区文化下的家族企业间有何不同”层面深入。

This study investigates whether cultural concept influences local family firms’ motivation to implement opportunistic behaviors from the perspective of son preference.This study finds that family firms in areas where son-preference perception is more pervasive are more willing to place male family members in CEO position and more inclined to introduce more family members into the firm;on the other hand,outside investors are more cautious about investing in family firms from son-preference areas.This study explains the heterogeneity of family firms from the perspective of cultural concepts,extending extant research from the "differences between family and nonfamily firms" level further to the "differences between family firms under the influence of different cultural concepts" level.