英文摘要 |
"Managers may abuse corporate control to pursue their self-interests, but such control can also protect entrepreneur-managers' efforts to pursue their idiosyncratic vision for the corporation and to acquire firm-specific knowledge and skills, thereby inspiring them to do so. Dual class share structures may aggravate the dark side of the private benefits of control but may also support their bright side. Hence the regulatory regime of dual class structures should prevent managers from abusing such structures to harm the corporation and outside shareholders but should not weaken, to any significant extent, managers' ability to acquire control through such structures. To reach this goal, regulators may impose reasonable limits on the separation of shareholders' voting rights and residual claims, and they may also employ event-based sunset rules to bind together a dual class structure and a founder's leadership of the corporation. However, the latter regulatory approach necessitates a total ban on dual class recapitalizations. At the same time, regulators normally should not adopt a breakthrough rule or a time-based sunset rule. China's regulatory regime of dual class structures has not struck the right balance between curbing the dark side of the private benefits of control and supporting their bright side, and some relevant rules need to be improved." |