| dc.description.abstract | This study attempts to investigate whether the corporate governance theories beliefs owned by business executives have impact on the speed of business employment adjustment. Based on the difference of forecasting behavior between agency theory and stewardship theory perspectives, this paper establishes a business discriminative index of agency theory and stewardship theory orientation by five standardized variables including the proportion of research and development expenditure, nonsystematic risk index, cash holdings, dividends to earnings ratio, and the proportion of outside directors, then try to find out the relevance between the orientation index and the speed of company employment adjustment. Collecting data from listed electronic companies at stock exchange market and over-the-counter market in Taiwan from 2009 to 2015, including 294 firms and 2058 observations. The empirical results indicate that the speed of company employment adjustment varies with different corporate governance theory orientation, and when the orientation index gets more close to stewardship theory, the business employment adjusts faster. Furthermore, dividing the employment adjustment situation into staffing and layoff, the results show that layoff speed also faster when the orientation index gets more close to stewardship theory. However, the staffing speed doesn’t vary due to different orientation index. Besides, the higher proportion of R&D expenditure, the higher nonsystematic risk index, the lower cash holdings, and the higher proportion of outside directors, the business employment adjusts faster, yet dividends to earnings ratio isn’t significant related to the speed of company employment adjustment. | en_US |