技术董事、兼职席位与企业产品质量

Technical Directors,Multiple Directorships and Product Quality

随着我国经济发展“质量时代”的来临,如何促进供给侧产品质量升级对于企业乃至国家的发展都至关重要。以2010—2019年披露了产品质量认证或荣誉信息的中国A股上市公司为样本,应用Logit回归分析方法,实证研究了技术董事对企业产品质量的影响。结果表明:技术董事对企业产品质量具有显著的促进作用;技术董事的兼职席位越多,这种促进作用越弱。进一步的研究显示:技术董事通过增加创新投入、加强质量管理体系建设、调查顾客满意度以及提高专利产出提升了企业产品质量;非独立技术董事和男性技术董事提升了企业产品质量,而独立技术董事和女性技术董事对企业产品质量没有显著影响。为充分发挥技术董事对产品质量的促进作用,企业应提高董事会中技术人才的比例并适当限制其在外单位兼职的行为,同时提高独立董事对公司治理的参与度。

As the“Quality Era”of China's economic development arrives,how to speed up the supply quality upgrade is very important for the development of enterprises and even the country.Based on the data of A-share Chinese listed companies that disclosed information on quality certification or commendation of products from 2010 to 2019,this paper selects the Logit regression method to conduct an empirical analysis on the influence of directors'technical expertise on product quality.The results show that technical directors have a significantly positive impact on product quality,and this facilitation weakens when they are with more multiple directorships.Further research reveals that technical directors promote product upgrading by increasing innovation input,strengthening the construction of quality management systems and customer satisfaction surveys,and improving patent output.Furthermore,product quality is mainly upgraded by non-independent technical directors and male technical directors,while independent technical directors and female technical directors have no significant influence on product quality.To make the most of technical directors'facilitation on product quality,enterprises should increase the proportion of technical personnel on the board of directors,limit their multiple directorships on other boards,and facilitate the independent directors'participation in corporate governance.