报告主题：Reconfiguring Firm Boundaries: Regional Market Integration and Strategic Labor Outsourcing
报告人：陈菁 教授（江西师范大学）
时间：2025年7月1日10：30-12：00
地点：管理学院A北202
报告内容摘要：
Motivated by the underexplored role of regional institutional factors in shaping firm boundaries, we investigate whether and how regional market integration influences firms’ labor outsourcing decisions. Leveraging regional integration policies in China as quasi-exogenous shocks, we identify a causal effect of regional market integration on firms’ strategic use of labor outsourcing. Economically, firms in integrated regions exhibit an 18.96% increase in labor outsourcing relative to the sample mean, compared to their counterparts in non-integrated regions. This effect is more pronounced among firms with higher financial constraints or greater risk-taking propensities, but less significant among firms with higher R&D intensity. Further analyses reveal that following regional market integration, firms predominantly outsource repetitive tasks rather than core functions. This labor strategy reconfiguration is associated with increased employment of high-skilled labor, reduced labor costs, and ultimately, enhanced firm performance. Collectively, our findings introduce a novel regional institutional perspective to the firm boundary literature, shifting the understanding of boundary choices from a firm-centric to a multi-level institutional framework.
【简介】
陈菁，江西师范大学经济与管理学院校聘教授，博士生导师，院学术委员会委员，民盟盟员，入选财政部高层次财会人才（2022年度）及江西省“赣鄱英才计划”等。主持国家社会科学基金项目2项及省部级课题5项；在《会计研究》、《Journal of International Money and Finance》、《Pacific-Basin Finance Journal》等国内外知名期刊发表论文20余篇；在国家级出版社出版专著1部。曾获江西省教学成果奖一等奖和优质课程二等奖等省部级教学奖励，主持省级教改课题2项，作为核心成员参与《管理学基础》、《成本会计》等省级一流本科课程建设。担任江西省民政学会副主任委员，天元航材等公司独立董事。
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