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1.

Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function

Tuck Business School Working Paper No. 01-09; Harvard NOM Research Paper No. 01-01; Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 00-058
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Apr 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 46,698
2.

How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 May 2015 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2015
Working Paper Series
Bruce Bartlett
Independent
Downloads 40,016
3.

The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Harvard Business School Research Working Paper No. 11-100
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 01 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads 12,549
4.

What is Corporate Law?

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 300
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 12,511
5.

The Essential Elements of Corporate Law

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 387, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper No. 643, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-39, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 11,342
6.

Corporate Social Responsibility - an Economic and Financial Framework

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
Geoffrey M. Heal
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
Downloads 11,083
7.

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Context

Chapter in: Crane, A., Matten, D., and Spence, L.J., 'Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in a Global Context', 2/e. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 3-26
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten and Laura J. Spence
University of Bath - School of Management, York University - Schulich School of Business and University of London - Royal Holloway College
Downloads 10,761
8.

Backdating

Business Lawyer, 2008
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Jeffrey L. Kwall and Stuart Duhl
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Harrison & Held, LLP
Downloads 9,962
9.

Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices

Journal of Financial Economics 101(3), 621-640, September 2011
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Alex Edmans
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
Downloads 9,952
10.

Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-673, 2005, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 8-22, 2005, Academy of Management Perspectives, pp. 5-24, February 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 528
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 9,697
11.

Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 39/2004, Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 04-26, Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 06 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School

Multiple version iconThere are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,187
12.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Performance

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 May 2006
Working Paper Series
Catherine J. Morrison Paul and Donald S. Siegel
University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and University at Albany, SUNY
Downloads 7,994
13.

Managing for Stakeholders

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2014
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R. Edward Freeman
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,956
14.

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,727
15.

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
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Lorenzo Sacconi
University of Trento - Department of Economics and Management
Downloads 7,001
16.

The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Management Science, Volume 60, Issue 11, pp. 2835-2857, February 2014
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
University of Oxford - Said Business School, London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard University - Harvard Business School

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Downloads 6,987
17.

Corporate Governance, Board Diversity, and Firm Performance

Oklahoma State University Working Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Mar 2002
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David Carter, Betty J. Simkins and W. Gary Simpson
Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance and Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance
Downloads 6,854
18.

Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 537783
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 05 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 6,840
19.

Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 388, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper Series No. 644 , European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 135/2009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 6,376
20.

Corporate Social Responsibility Audit: From Theory to Practice

University of Cambridge, Judge Institute of Management Working Paper No. 14/2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
Risako Morimoto, John Ash and Christopher Hope
Independent, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Downloads 6,340
21.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance

Strategic Management Journal, 35 (1): 1-23.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 May 2011 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
Harvard University - Harvard Business School, London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads 5,918
22.

Board Structure in the UK and Germany: Convergence or Continuing Divergence?

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Mar 2001
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Paul L. Davies
University of Oxford- Faculty of Law
Downloads 5,757
23.

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, pp. 751-846, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 366, June 2002
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 19 Jun 2002 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,617
24.

Corporate Governance in India - Evolution and Challenges

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jan 2005
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Rajesh Chakrabarti
OP Jindal Global University
Downloads 5,440
25.

The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 74/2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 301, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 04 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Jeffrey N. Gordon
Columbia Law School

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Downloads 5,277
26.

Video: The Three Foundations of A Great Life, Great Leadership, and A Great Organization

Barbados Group Working Paper No. 11-04, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Research Paper No. 11-122
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 10 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen
Independent and Harvard Business School
Downloads 5,197
27.

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 Harvard Business School
Downloads 5,134
28.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Dec 2005
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David P. Baron
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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Downloads 4,976
29.

An Empirical Analysis of the Strategic Use of Corporate Social Responsibility

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 May 2006
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Donald S. Siegel and Donald F. Vitaliano
University at Albany, SUNY and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) - Department of Economics

Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,897
30.

Balanced Scorecard in Indian Companies

Vikalpa, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 11-25, April-June 2005
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Jul 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Manoj Anand, B. S. Sahay and Subhashish Saha
Management Development Institute , Management Development Institute - Supply Chain Management Area and Securities Exchange Board of India
Downloads 4,881
31.

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect The Performance of Firms?

FEEM Working Paper No. 52.2009
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Aug 2009
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Sergio Vergalli and Laura Poddi
University of Brescia - Department of Economics and University of Ferrara

Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,632
32.

Is Earnings Quality Associated with Corporate Social Responsibility?

Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 31 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2012
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Yongtae Kim, Myung Seok Park and Benson Wier
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) - School of Business and Virginia Commonwealth University
Downloads 4,561
33.

What's a Director to Do?

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-38
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Feb 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen
The Monitor Company and Harvard Business School
Downloads 4,549
34.

'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 4,515
35.

The Enron Scandal (Slides)

Number of pages: 101 Posted: 04 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 14 May 2009
Working Paper Series
Marc Hodak
Hodak Value Advisors
Downloads 4,339
36.

Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

Chapter 8 in Leading Sustainable Change, Oxford University Press, 2014
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Kathleen Miller and George Serafeim
Miller Consultants and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads 4,310
37.

The Other CSR: Consumer Social Responsibility

Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2006, Leeds University Business School Working Paper No. 15-04
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 May 2006 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2015
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Timothy M. Devinney, Pat Auger, Giana Eckhardt and Thomas Birtchnell
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS), University of Melbourne Business School, Suffolk University - Sawyer School of Management and University of Sydney - Centre for the Mind
Downloads 4,286
38.

Why Do Corporate Managers Misstate Financial Statements? the Role of Option Compensation and Other Factors

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 May 2005
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Jap Efendi, Anup Srivastava and Edward P. Swanson
University of Texas at Arlington, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Texas A&M University - Mays Business School

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Downloads 4,118
39.

Agency Problems and Legal Strategies

THE ANATOMY OF CORPORATE LAW: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH, R. Kraakman, P. Davies, H. Hansmann, G. Hertig, K. Hopt, H. Kanda, and E. Rock, Oxford University Press, pp. 21-31, 2004
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Dec 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 4,108
40.

The Growth of Executive Pay

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 21, pp. 283-303, 2005, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 510
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Yaniv Grinstein
Harvard Law School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Downloads 4,048
41.

Corporate Social Responsibility: An Issues Paper

International Labour Office Working Paper No. 27
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Jul 2006
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Michael Hopkins
International Labour Organization (ILO) - Policy Integration Department
Downloads 3,943
42.

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations: Analysts’ Perceptions and Shifting Institutional Logics

Strategic Management Journal, Volume 36, Issue 7, pp. 1053-1081, July 2015
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads 3,941
43.

Was the 2008 Financial Crisis Caused by a Lack of Corporate Ethics?

Global Journal of Business Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 77-84, 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Jul 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Victor Lewis, Kenneth D. Kay, Chandrika Kelso and James Larson
National University, National University, National University and National University
Downloads 3,897
44.

Short-Termism, the Financial Crisis, and Corporate Governance

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 37, p. 264, 2011, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 12-078
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 16 Feb 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Lynne Dallas
University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 3,894
45.

The Responsibility Paradox: Multinational Firms and Global Corporate Social Responsibility

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1031
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
Gerald F. Davis, Marina V. N. Whitman and Mayer Nathan Zald
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Michigan - Department of Sociology
Downloads 3,885
46.

Modeling the Message: Communicating Compliance Through Organizational Values and Culture

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2012
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 12 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Scott Killingsworth
Bryan Cave LLP
Downloads 3,880
47.

Sustainability, Accountability and Corporate Governance: Exploring Multinationals' Reporting Practices

Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-15, 2008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 May 2006 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Ans Kolk
University of Amsterdam Business School
Downloads 3,776
48.

Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 807-822, 2005, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 653125, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 505, February 2005
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 05 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 3,727
49.

Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field

27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 09 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
John R. Graham, Jillian Grennan, Campbell R. Harvey and Shivaram Rajgopal
Duke University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School

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Downloads 3,706
50.

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Superior Financial Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2013
Working Paper Series
Caroline Flammer
Boston University
Downloads 3,696