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Assessing Managerial Power Theory:A Meta-
Analytic Approach
toUnderstanding the
Determinants of CEO Compensation
评价管理层权力理论(
MPT
)
:用元分析的方法来理解
CEO
薪酬的的决定因素
Marc van
Essen
(
Utrecht
University
)
.
2015, Journal of Management
:
164-203
一、提出问题
尽管对
CEO
薪酬的研究在不断增加,但是关于形成高管薪酬类型的基本决定因素,各
学科之间仍缺少共识。
这种缺少的共识最常见的在:
一方面:提倡基于市场解释的经济和金融学者
另一方面:
经济和金融学科之外的学者挑战这些解释,
他们主在薪酬实践创新过程中强
调权力、社会心理过程和机构环境的重要性。
这种差异引起了更多有创造性的讨论,
最近对纯粹基于市场解释最杰出的挑战是管理层
权力理论(
MPT
)
。这个理论由
B
ebchuk
and
Fried
(Bebchuk&
Fried,
2004;
Bebchuk,Fried,
&
Walker,
2002)
推动。
这个理论框架的核
心是对代理理论最优契约假设的一种直接挑战。
最优契约理论中,
董
事会致力于和高管在薪酬安排上达成正常交易;
这种正常交
易可以通过建立高管和股东利益
最紧密连接的薪酬机制来解决代理问题。
相反,
Bebchuk and Fried
(
2004
)发现,董事会很少致力于建立这
种正常交易,因为企
业特殊的结构和社会心理机制会对董事会制定高管薪酬的决策过程产
生很重要的影响,
所以
CEOs
通常会
拥有比董事会更大的权力。这些机制为董事会提供了了新的动机来挑战薪酬安
排,
而这样的安排更偏向高管的利益而不是股东的利益,
也就是董事会提供
了更高层次的薪
酬以及与业绩不太相关的薪酬。
MPT
的目标不是反驳代理理论,而是去深化,通过提出管理层权力和它对高
管薪酬的
影响引起了对最优契约假设的质疑。
一些经济和金融领域的学者用了多种类型的证据反过来批评了
MPT
,虽然他们对
MIP
范围和影响提出了很重要的问题,但是对于
MPT
有效性,他们没有提供有效的决定性的证
据来反驳。
Bebch
uk and Fried
(
2004
)已经直接提出了对这些批评的直接抗辩。
最重要的是在公司
层面,
大部分挑战没有基于对管理层权力和薪酬支出指标关系的直接
检验。相反,这些批评倾向于集中在集团层面相关的董事会独立性、薪酬、公司业绩和
CEO
更替。
< br>因此,我们主张用两个核心的问题来检验
MPT
的有效性
:
1.
比董事会拥有更多权力的
p>
CEO
是否比拥有较少权力的
CEO
有更高的薪酬?
2.
比董事会拥有更多权力的
CEO
是否有跟公司业绩不相符(对
公司业绩不敏感)?
已经有大量和
多样的研究在公司层面实证检验了这些关系,
然而这些文献仍然是不确定
性的,
特点就是不同的和冲突的发现允许支持者和反对者对不同的结论进行论证
。
所以,
现
阶段需要一个对现存文献更
严格的评价方法,
能够巩固这种混合的实证发现以及从薪酬水平
和薪酬业绩敏感性的角度来评价对
MPT
有效性的一般解释。<
/p>
这篇文章我们用元分析的方法提供了一种对现有文献巩固和评价
。
元分析(
meta-
analysis
)
统计方法是对众多现有实证文献的再次统
计,通过对相关文献
中的统计指标利用相应的统计公式,
进行再
一次的统计分析,
从而可以根据获得的统计显著
性等来分析两个
变量间真实的相关关系。
元分析是一种有用和稳健的方法,<
/p>
用来分析在大量研究中已经被检验过的变量之间的关
系。
当存在大量混合结果和冲突结果研究的情形下,
元分析方法提供了综合和
严密的评价来
均衡最接近结果的数据证据。
二、研究方法
We use these techniques to assess the
accumulated evidence of 219 studies that
measurethe
influence
of
managerial
power
directly
on
both
CEO
compensation
levels
and
therelationship
between corporate performance and CEO
pay.
If our analysis finds
higher levels of pay
and
pay that is less sensitive to
performance
when
executives
have more power, and the opposite when directors
have more power, thiswill
provide
empirical evidence
in favor
of MPT.
To test these predictions,
scholars haverelied on a number of different
indicators of CEO and
board power
We
focus
on
the
two
sets
of
mechanisms
on
which
researchers
have
focused
most
frequently
when analyzing
managerial power:
board structuresand
ownership characteristics
三、研究假设
Board
Characteristics
Variables
:
CEO
duality,CEO
tenure,
size
of
the
board,
and
the
percentage
of
independent
directors
Hypothesis 1a: CEO duality is
positively associated with the value of total CEO
compensation.
Hypothesis
1b:
In
the
presence
of
CEO
duality,
the
association
between
corporate
performance andCEO compensation will be
weaker.
Hypothesis 2a: CEO tenure is
positively associated with the value of total CEO
compensation.
Hypothesis
2b:
In
the
presence
of
CEOs
with
longer
tenure,
the
association
between
corporateperformance
and CEO compensation will be weaker.
Hypothesis 3a: Board size is positively
associated with the value of total CEO
compensation.
Hypothesis
3b:
In
the
presence
of
larger
boards,
the
association
between
corporate
performance andCEO compensation will be
weaker.
Hypothesis
4a:
The
percentage
of
independent
directors
is
negatively
associated
with
the
value oftotal CEO
compensation.
Hypothesis 4b: At higher
levels of board independence, the relationship
between corporate
performance and CEO
compensation will be stronger.
Ownership Characteristics
Va
riables
:
concentrated
ownership, institutional ownership
Hypothesis
5a:
Higher
levels
of
concentrated
ownership
is
negatively
associated
with
the
value oftotal CEO
compensation.
Hypothesis
5b:
At
higher
levels
of
concentrated
ownership,
the
association
between
corporateperformance and CEO
compensation will be stronger.
Hypothesis
6a:
Higher
levels
of
institutional
ownership
is
negatively
associated
with
the
value oftotal CEO
compensation.
Hypothesis
6b:
At
higher
levels
of
institutional
ownership,
the
association
between
corporateperformance and CEO
compensation will be stronger.
四、研究设计
Model:
where
Ri
is the
partial correlation between firm performance and
CEO total compensation,
y0
is
the constant term,
D
is a
vector of whether a particular variable is
included in aregression or
not,
S
is
a
vector
of
measurement
artifacts,
R
is
a
vector
of
study
characteristics,and
ui
is
the
random component.
we
included
in
the
D
vector
a
set
of
dummy
variables
indicatingwhether
the
following
variables were
included in the regression (0) or not (1): CEO
duality,CEO tenure, board size, board
independence, ownership concentration,
and institutionalownership.
we
included
in
theS
vector
several
control
variables.
To
control
for
the
influence
of
measurement artifacts on effect sizes
we included in the R vector three other
control variables. To control for theinfluence of
study
artifacts
五、研究结果:
Total
Compensation
Hypothesis 1a, which predicts that CEO
duality is positively related to the level of
totalCEO
compensation, is confirmed by
the results in Table 4. We find that CEO duality
ispositively related
to
CEO
total
pay
(b
= .02,
p
< .05).
We
find
no
support
for
Hypothesis
2athat
CEO
tenure
is