Social Performance Incentives in Mission-Driven Firms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jung, Sun-Moon; Shin, Jae Yong
• 署名单位: Dongguk University; Seoul National University (SNU)
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2021.4232
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 7631-7657
• 关键词: social enterprises; SOCIAL PERFORMANCE; bonus incentives; task complementarity; perceived measurability; social controls; formal controls

摘要

We examine the effect of introducing an incentive plan based on social performance in a sample of 186 social mission-oriented firms in Korea. We find that the social performance of social enterprises (SEs) significantly improves over time after adoption of an incentive plan based on social performance, and that the incentive effect increases with managers' perceived measurability of social performance. Moreover, we document that social bonuses do not harm SEs' financial performance and that they have a positive spillover effect on financial performance in SEs that have a higher level of task complementarity between social and financial goals. Our results also show that when the main beneficiary of social bonuses is expected to be a firm's employees, the incentive effect of social bonuses decreases (increases) with a firm's focus on social controls (formal controls). In contrast, when the main beneficiary is expected to be a firm's social mission, the incentive effect increases with a firm's reliance on social controls.