THE IMPACT OF GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Nowadays, private higher education institutions (HEIs) in China are developing rapidly, especially in Guangdong and Henan Province. To analyze the characteristics of the board of directors, top-management team and board of supervisors in the current governance structure of private HEIs, as well as the team behavioral integration, can help to improve the organizational performance of private HEIs. In addition, this study will explore the moderating role of risk perception in team behavioral integration and organizational performance. This study will adopt a deductive research method to demonstrate and analyze the relationship between the characteristics of the board of directors, top-management and board of supervisors in the governance structure, team behavioral integration and organizational performance based on governance theory, stakeholder theory, agency theory, and upper echelon theory. This study will take board of directors’ members, top-management team members and board of supervisors’ members of private HEIs in Guangdong and Henan Province as the research objects. A structured questionnaire was developed to collect data from the private HEIs and test hypotheses using consistent PLS-SEM in SMART PLS combined with bootstrapping.

Keywords: Private higher education institutions, Organizational performance，Board of directors, Top-management team, Board of supervisors, Team behavioral integration,  Risk perception