关键词: 高层梯队理论, 食品安全信息披露, 海外经历, 学术资本, 产权性质

Abstract: Enterprise managers are the main decisionmakers regarding food safety information disclosure, and it is worth paying attention to how their characteristics affect the quality of such information. This study takes 1 402 Chinese Ashare listed food firms as research samples and uses content analysis to build a food quality and safety information disclosure index system to study the impact of senior executive characteristics on the quality of food safety information disclosure. The result shows that executive gender, academic background, social capital, and overseas experience had significant positive effects on food safety information disclosure, improving it by 2.771, 0.336, 1.630, and 0.115 points, respectively. Additionally, the study finds that the overseas experience of senior executives in stateowned enterprises can more strongly promote food safety information disclosure, and the institutional environment plays a regulatory role between management social capital and food safety information disclosure. A good institutional environment is more conducive to improving the quality of food safety information disclosure by senior executive social capital. This study expands the literature research in the field of food safety information disclosure from the microlevel of executive characteristics. It provides a relevant basis for improving the manager structure and selection mechanism of food listed companies, and further improving the quality of food safety information disclosure.

Key words: upper echelons theory, food safety information disclosure, overseas experience, academic background, property rights