Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24493 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 01-72
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
We analyze the relationship between managerial ownership and company performance, testing the incentive and entrenchment hypothesis. Differently from previous literature, we focus on small and medium-sized private enterprises which constitute an important part of the German economy. We use a panel of 356 companies in the German business-related service sector for the years 1997-2000. Our findings are that performance, measured by survey-based profit information, is increasing in managerial ownership up to around 40 percent. We do not find a significant entrenchment effect, possibly because at levels at which managers could become entrenched, they already bear a large proportion of the costs and have therefore an incentive to maximize company value.
Subjects: 
company performance
managerial ownership
corporate governance
small and medium-sized enterprises
JEL: 
G32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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