SSRN JEL Code: L22

1.

Agency Cost Of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers

American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, May 1986

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 25 Mar 1999

Accepted Paper Series

Michael C. Jensen

SSRN

Downloads 41,312

2.

Financial Accounting Information and Corporate Governance

JAE Rochester Conference April 2000

Number of pages: 115 Posted: 28 Apr 2002

Working Paper Series

Robert M. Bushman and Abbie J. Smith

University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 15,227

3.

The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems

Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000; Journal of Finance, July 1993

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 09 May 1999 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Michael C. Jensen

SSRN

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 13,442

4.

Paying People to Lie: The Truth About the Budgeting Process

Harvard NOM Research Paper No. 01-03, and HBS Working Paper No. 01-072

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Apr 2001

Working Paper Series

Michael C. Jensen

SSRN

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 13,306

5.

The Free Cash Flow Theory of Takeovers: A Financial Perspective on Mergers and Acquisitions and the Economy

"The Merger Boom", Proceedings of a Conference sponsored by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, pp. 102-143, October 1987

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 08 Feb 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Michael C. Jensen

SSRN

Downloads 8,823

6.

The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 23/2003

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Sep 2003

Working Paper Series

Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,087

7.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a Model of 'Extended' Corporate Governance: An Explanation Based on the Economic Theories of Social Contract, Reputation and Reciprocal Conformism

LIUC, Ethics, Law and Economics Paper No. 142

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Mar 2004

Working Paper Series

Lorenzo Sacconi

University of Trento - Department of Economics and Management

Downloads 6,562

8.

The Cost of Diversity: The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment

CRSP Working Paper No. 463

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 05 Feb 1998

Working Paper Series

Raghuram G. Rajan, Henri Servaes and Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, London Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,374

9.

The Global Automotive Industry Value Chain: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries

UNIDO Sectorial Studies Series Working Paper

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 02 Sep 2003

Working Paper Series

John Humphrey and Olga Memedovic

University of Sussex - Institute of Development Studies and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation - Strategic Research and Economics

Downloads 6,183

10.

The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, March 2009, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 344, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 627, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-63

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2013

Accepted Paper Series

C. Scott Hemphill and Jeannie Suk Gersen

New York University School of Law and Harvard Law School

Downloads 5,190

11.

The Antitrust Economics of Two-Sided Markets

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 14 Nov 2002 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2014

Working Paper Series

David S. Evans

Global Economics Group

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,029

12.

Science, Specific Knowledge, and Total Quality Management

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 1997

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 29 Jan 1998

Accepted Paper Series

Karen H. Wruck and Michael C. Jensen

Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance and SSRN

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,006

13.

Corporate Performance, Board Structure and its Determinants in the Banking Industry

EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Jun 2005

Working Paper Series

Renee B. Adams and Hamid Mehran

University of New South Wales, Department of Banking and Finance and Independent

Downloads 4,430

14.

The Essential Role of Organizational Law

NYU Law and Economics Working Paper No. 00-006; Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper 284; Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-11

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Jun 2000

Working Paper Series

Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,338

15.

An Economic Perspective on Transfer Pricing

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 26 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 27 May 2009

Working Paper Series

Robert F. Göx and Ulf Schiller

University of Zurich - Department of Business Administration (IBW) and University of Basel

Downloads 4,081

16.

Motivation Crowding Theory: A Survey of Empirical Evidence

Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 26; CESifo Working Paper Series No. 245

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Apr 2000

Working Paper Series

Bruno S. Frey and Reto Jegen

CREMA and University of Zurich - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,037

17.

'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility

Academy of Management Review Vol. 33, No. 2

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jan 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Dirk Matten and Jeremy Moon

York University - Schulich School of Business and Nottingham University Business School (NUBS)

Downloads 3,889

18.

Origin of the Theory of Agency: An Account By One of the Theory's Originators

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2013

Working Paper Series

Barry M. Mitnick

University of Pittsburgh

Downloads 3,788

19.

New Institutional Economics

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Sep 1998

Working Paper Series

Peter G. Klein

Baylor University, Department of Entrepreneurship

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,402

20.

The Hold-Up Problem and Incomplete Contracts: A Survey of Recent Topics in Contract Theory

Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 53, No. 1, January 2001

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Apr 2001

Accepted Paper Series

Patrick W. Schmitz

University of Cologne

Downloads 3,219

21.

Business Model Innovation: Creating Value in Times of Change

IESE Business School Working Paper No. 870

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Nov 2010

Working Paper Series

Raphael ('Raffi") H. Amit and Christoph Zott

The Wharton School UPENN and University of Navarra, IESE Business School

Downloads 3,038

22.

Horizontal Shareholding

109 Harvard Law Review 1267 (2016), Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 16-17

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Einer Elhauge

Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,972

23.

The Make-or-Buy Decision: Lessons from Empirical Studies

CORI Working Paper No. 04-07

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Apr 2004

Working Paper Series

Peter G. Klein

Baylor University, Department of Entrepreneurship

Downloads 2,971

24.

Pyramidal Groups and the Separation Between Ownership and Control in Italy

THE CONTROL OF CORPORATE EUROPE, Fabrizio Barca and Marco Becht, eds., Oxford University Press, pp. 154-186, 2001

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Jul 1999 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Marcello Bianchi, Magda Bianco and Luca Enriques

Assonime, Bank of Italy and University of Oxford Faculty of Law

Downloads 2,777

25.

Law and the Rise of the Firm

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Jan 2006

Working Paper Series

Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire

Yale Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,766

26.

Monopolio, Monopsonio e Rendimenti di Scala (Monopoly, Monopsony and Returns to Scale)

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2017

Working Paper Series

Maria-Augusta Miceli

University of Rome

Downloads 2,740

27.

The Concept of Dominance in EC Competition Law

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Aug 2005

Working Paper Series

Damien Geradin, Nicolas Petit, Mike Walker, Paul Hofer and Frédéric Louis

Tilburg Law & Economics Center (TILEC), University of Liege - School of Law, Charles River Associates, Incorporated, NERA Economic Consulting and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Downloads 2,695

28.

The Business Model: An Integrative Framework for Strategy Execution

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Working Paper Series

James E. Richardson

University of Hawaii at Manoa Shidler College of Business

Downloads 2,631

29.

Berkshire's Disintermediation: Buffett's New Managerial Model

GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2015-16, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-16, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper Series No. 205

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 May 2015 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2015

Working Paper Series

Lawrence A. Cunningham

George Washington University

Downloads 2,602

30.

Integrating Managerial and Tax Objectives in Transfer Pricing

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Jul 2003

Working Paper Series

Tim Baldenius, Nahum D. Melumad and Stefan J. Reichelstein

New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting, Columbia Business School - Accounting, Business Law & Taxation and Stanford University - Stanford Graduate School of Business

Downloads 2,546

31.

Incentives versus Transaction Costs: A Theory of Procurement Contracts

Stanford University, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-029

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Nov 1999

Working Paper Series

Steven Tadelis and Patrick Bajari

University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,524

32.

Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms

IEER Working Paper No. 27

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Aug 2000

Working Paper Series

Margit Osterloh and Bruno S. Frey

University of Basel and CREMA

Downloads 2,450

33.

Governance and Performance Revisited

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 28/2003, EFA 2003 Annual Conference Paper No. 252

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2013

Working Paper Series

Øyvind Bøhren and Bernt Arne Ødegaard

BI Norwegian Business School - Department of Finance and University of Stavanger

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,415

34.

Explicating Open Innovation: Clarifying an Emerging Paradigm for Understanding Innovation

Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Joel West, eds. New Frontiers in Open Innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming (pp. 3-28)

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Henry Chesbrough and Marcel Bogers

Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and University of Copenhagen - Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)

Downloads 2,355

35.

Strategic Transfer Pricing, Absorption Costing and Vertical Integration

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Jul 1998

Working Paper Series

Robert F. Göx

University of Zurich - Department of Business Administration (IBW)

Downloads 2,299

36.

Hidden Power of the Big Three? Passive Index Funds, Re-Concentration of Corporate Ownership, and New Financial Risk

Business and Politics, April 2017, DOI: 10.1017/bap.2017.6

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 15 May 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Jan Fichtner, Eelke M. Heemskerk and Javier Garcia-Bernardo

University of Amsterdam / CORPNET, University of Amsterdam / CORPNET and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

Downloads 2,213

37.

Shareholder Interests, Human Capital Investment and Corporate Governance

Stanford GSB Working Paper No. 1631

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Jul 2000

Working Paper Series

Donald John Roberts and Eric Van den Steen

Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School - Strategy Unit

Downloads 2,204

38.

Barriere all'entrata: come calcolarle (Barriers to Entry: How to Compute Them)

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 May 2013 Last Revised: 03 May 2017

Working Paper Series

Maria-Augusta Miceli

University of Rome

Downloads 2,137

39.

Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Oct 1999

Working Paper Series

Paul S. Adler

University of Southern California - Management and Organization Department

Downloads 2,125

40.

The Importance of Industry Links in Merger Waves

Journal of Finance, 2014, vol. 69(2): 527-576.

Number of pages: 159 Posted: 14 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Kenneth R. Ahern and Jarrad Harford

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Washington

Downloads 2,085

41.

Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 May 2007

Working Paper Series

Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Boston University – Questrom School of Business

Downloads 2,064

42.

Understanding the Board of Directors after the Financial Crisis

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 229, Lex Research Topics in Corporate Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2013-5

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2015

Working Paper Series

Joseph A. McCahery and Erik P. M. Vermeulen

Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC) and Tilburg University - Department of Business Law

Downloads 2,021

43.

Auditor Size and Audit Quality Revisited: The Importance of Audit Technology

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014

Working Paper Series

Louis-Philippe Sirois and Dan A. Simunic

Université Laval - École de comptabilité and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

Downloads 2,019

44.

American Needle v. NFL: An Opportunity to Reshape Sports Law

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 119, p. 726, 2010

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Michael McCann

University of New Hampshire School of Law

Downloads 1,996

45.

Four Formal(izable) Theories of the Firm?

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 04-34

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 28 Sep 2004

Working Paper Series

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

Downloads 1,986

46.

Science, Specific Knowledge and Total Quality Management

Harvard Business School Working Paper No 94-003

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Jul 1994

Working Paper Series

Karen H. Wruck and Michael C. Jensen

Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance and SSRN

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,982

47.

A Clinical Exploration of Value Creation and Destruction in Acquisitions: Organization Design, Incentives, and Internal Capital Markets

Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Working Paper No. 450

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Aug 1997

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan, Mark L. Mitchell and Karen H. Wruck

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, AQR Capital Management, LLC and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance

Downloads 1,969

48.

Empirical Evidence for the Relation between Customer Satisfaction and Business Performance

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2001-32-ORG

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Mar 2008

Working Paper Series

Paul Boselie, Martijn Hesselink and Ton van der Wiele

Tilburg University - Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,955

49.

A Theory of Friendly Boards

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 100/2005

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Dec 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Renee B. Adams and Daniel Ferreira

University of New South Wales, Department of Banking and Finance and London School of Economics - Department of Finance

Downloads 1,936

50.

A Theory of Partnerships

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 244

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 May 2002

Working Paper Series

Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis

Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

Downloads 1,919

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