Do ESOPs enhance firm performance? Evidence from China's reform experiment
China introduced employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) in 1992 purely as an employee incentive scheme. The government initiated the policy experiment on ESOPs as part of China's reform of its state-owned enterprises, and it was abruptly terminated 2Â years after initiation. This policy experiment resulted in an exogenous sample of ESOPs that allows us to provide the first evidence from Chinese firms on the performance-ESOP relation. After examining a variety of performance measures, including ROA, ROE, Tobin's q, and productivity, we find little difference in performance between ESOP firms and non-ESOP firms.
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2011
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Authors: | Meng, Rujing ; Ning, Xiangdong ; Zhou, Xianming ; Zhu, Hongquan |
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Journal of Banking & Finance. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4266. - Vol. 35.2011, 6, p. 1541-1551
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | Employee ownership Incentives Firm performance |
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