Examination of Antecedents and Consequences of Business-Government Relationships

企业与政府关系的前因和后果的审查

• 批准号: 1852641
• 负责人: Nan Jia
• 金额: $ 29.31万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-15 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852641&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Examination; Antecedents; Consequences; Business; Government

Examination of Antecedents and Consequences of Business-Government RelationshipsThis project will study the source and effects of the connections between businesses and governments. Business elites have played an active role in building various types of connections with political elites for decades in many countries. The primary goal of this project is to (1) demonstrate general patterns of how publicly listed firms, across a large number of countries in the world for over 30 years, hired politically connected individuals as their leaders, including top management team and board of directors; (2) examine how a key antecedent created by the external environment -- financial crises -- critically shape the formation and dissolution of firms' political connections, and (3) in each country, study the consequences of changing political connections of large publicly listed firms on the economic outcomes of small and medium-sized firms in the same country; including the emergence of young and new firms or local entrepreneurship.Antecedents and consequences of business-government relationships will be studied in the following ways. Recently developed information technologies in text analysis will be utilized to analyze and synthesize the information obtained from existing data and media coverage to build a large database of politically connected boards of directors and top managers of the largest publicly listed firms in multiple countries over time. One study will provide extensive and in-depth documentation of both the dynamic patterns of changes to political connections over time and the geographic distribution across different countries. The second set of analyses will investigate the effect of financial crises on the hiring of politically connected leaders by top listed firms. Various econometric analyses will be conducted in order to identify the causal effect of financial crises on corporate political connections. The third set of analyses will focus on how the distribution of firm size in each country change in association with changes to top listed firms' political connections. The project will advance scholarship in business organizations and political economy, particularly regarding the process through which businesses build political connections. It will also advance the research insights on how multi-country institutional contexts exert different influence on the formation and dissolution of political connections. Lastly, the study will draw attention to how financial crises and how different public policies employed in response to financial crises affect the evolution of corporate political connections, a common way in which economic and political power become connected.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

考察企业与政府关系的前因后果本项目将研究企业与政府之间关系的来源和影响。几十年来，商界精英在与许多国家的政治精英建立各种类型的联系方面发挥了积极作用。这个项目的主要目标是(1)展示世界上许多国家的上市公司30多年来如何聘请政治人脉作为其领导人的一般模式，包括最高管理团队和董事会；(2)研究外部环境造成的关键前因--金融危机--如何关键地影响公司政治关系的形成和解散，以及(3)在每个国家，研究大型上市公司政治关系变化对同一国家中小型公司经济结果的影响；包括新兴企业和当地企业的出现。企业-政府关系的前因后果将从以下几个方面进行研究。最近开发的文本分析信息技术将被用来分析和综合从现有数据和媒体报道中获得的信息，以建立一个大型数据库，其中包括多个国家最大的上市公司随着时间的推移与政治有关的董事会和高级管理人员。一项研究将提供广泛和深入的文件，记录政治联系随时间变化的动态模式以及不同国家的地理分布。第二组分析将调查金融危机对顶级上市公司聘用有政治背景的领导人的影响。将进行各种计量经济学分析，以确定金融危机对企业政治联系的因果影响。第三组分析将侧重于每个国家的公司规模分布如何随着顶级上市公司政治关系的变化而变化。该项目将促进商业组织和政治经济学的学术研究，特别是关于企业建立政治联系的过程。这也将促进关于多国制度背景如何对政治联系的形成和解除产生不同影响的研究见解。最后，这项研究将提请注意金融危机以及为应对金融危机而采取的不同公共政策如何影响企业政治联系的演变，这是经济和政治权力联系在一起的一种常见方式。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。