喻园管理论坛 2018年第68期(总第412期)

演讲主题:Cooking the Books or Sleeping Around? Executive Social Capital in the Wake of a Scandal

主 讲 人:姜翰助理教授,University of Arizona

主 持 人:杨治副院长

时 间:2018年6月19日(周二)上午9:00-11:00

活动地点:管理大楼119室

主讲人简介：

Han Jiang (PhD. Arizona State University) is an assistant professor at Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. His research interest mainly focuses on social network and social capital, corporate governance, and interfirm relationships. His work has been published on leading academic journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, among other outlets.

演讲内容概要:

Scholars have long recognized that executives are often dismissed after scandals. We extend this line of research by exploring the distinct implications of executives’ social capital for their dismissal following a scandal. Using firms’ financial fraud and executives’ personal indiscretion as examples, we highlight that the impact of social capital on dismissal in the wake of a scandal is largely determined by executives’ culpability. Based on a sample of public firms in China, our central finding is that while an executive’s social capital can help reduce the likelihood of being dismissed as a scapegoat following financial fraud, it becomes a liability for executives who engage in personal indiscretion, increasing the likelihood that firms will dismiss these compromised executives.