"Patient Capital" and Dynastic Management
Author: Guanchun Liu
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper explores the role that a change in a family firm's time horizon might play in professionalizing its kinship-based top management team. We introduce a model of management transfer in family firms, in which firm owners decide between hiring their children or non-family professionals, and the children decide between working for their parents or non-family employers. Dynastic management arises when the parents and children match together. Our model predicts that when family members behave more myopically, they are more likely to vacate top management positions in family firms. To test this hypothesis, we use a balanced panel including China's A-share publicly listed family firms for 2009-2015, and conduct a quasi-natural experiment based on the consequence of stepped-up state intervention in economy since Chinese President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. The results are consistent with our theoretical prediction.