The Impact of Regional Privatesector Development on Firm Efficiency: Population ecology and institutional theory revisited

本文结合了组织社会学两大流派——种群生态学和制度学派的视角，探索我国不同省区民营经济发展速度对民营企业绩效的影响。研究发现，民营经济的快速发展对民营经济发展程度高的省区企业影响是负面的，却有利于发展程度低的省区的民营企业；前者是组织环境中的竞争性机制所致，后者主要是受合法性机制的影响。研究进一步发现，民营经济的快速发展对小型民营企业和年轻的民营企业更为有利。本文在方法论和理论上对种群生态学都有所突破，另外本文的发现也弥补了“新进入缺陷”理论的不足。

This study combines the perspectives of population ecology and institutional theory in organizational sociology to explore how the varying growth rates of private sector across provinces in China influence the financial performance of private firms.The results show that the rapid growth of the private sector is negatively associated with the firms performance in provinces with a more developed private sector, whereas it has a positive impact on the firms in provinces where the private sector is less developed.We attribute the difference to the respective dominance of the competition mechanism and the legitimacy mechanism in the two scenarios.The results further show that the rapid growth of the private sector is especially beneficial to small and young firms.This paper contributes to the theory of population ecology in both methodology and theory.In addition, the findings are able to qualify the notion of “liability of newness”.

陈宗仕 郑路

教育部人文社会科学研究一般项目的资助（12YJC840064）

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