英文摘要 |
This study compares the impact of family versus nonfamily businesses on their performance. Furthermore, this study examines the factors determining the relationship between family businesses and firm performance. Using Taiwanese listed firms from 1996 to 2010, we find that family businesses perform better than nonfamily businesses, and that family businesses perform better than do professionally managed firms. Professional managers affect performance more in high-tech industries compared with traditional industries. Family-controlled shareholding has a positive impact on accounting-based performance. Additional analyses suggest that the family effect mainly originates from direct shareholding and that the relationship between family-controlled shareholding and performance is nonlinear. The number of family members on the BOD has no impact on firm performance. However, compensation has a moderating effect on the relation of a family-based BOD and performance. There is a positive relationship exists between family members who serve as top executives and accounting-based performance, especially when the founder or descendants serve as CEOs or chairpersons increasing performance. Institutional shareholding is associated with higher accounting-based performance, and this positive effect is stronger for domestic institutions than for foreign institutions. Finally, the higher the deviation between voting and cash flow rights of family businesses is, the more negative the effect on firm performance is. |