1.
Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 3, No. 4, 1976
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 19 Jul 1998
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads
130,358
2.
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
Harvard Business School
Downloads
44,167
3.
Separation of Ownership and Control
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, and Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 26, June 1983
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads
35,977
4.
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 14 Jan 2004
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Acorn Systems, Inc.
Downloads
24,641
5.
Executive Compensation
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 19 May 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
19,548
6.
Three Residual Income Valuation Methods and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 16 Jan 2002
Last Revised: 19 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
19,173
7.
Specific and General Knowledge and Organizational Structure
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, CONTRACT ECONOMICS, pp. 251-274, Lars Werin and Hans Wijkander, eds., Blackwell, Oxford, 1992, Journal Of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 1995
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 01 Sep 1995
Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads
16,185
8.
Evidence on Eva
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 1999
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 20 Sep 1999
Accepted Paper Series
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Univeristy of San Diego - School of Business and Claremont Colleges - Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management
Downloads
15,706
9.
Cash Flow Is a Fact: Net Income Is Just an Opinion
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 25 Sep 2002
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
15,697
10.
EVA and Cash Value Added Do NOT Measure Shareholder Value Creation
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 05 Jun 2001
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School
Downloads
15,023
11.
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
Harvard Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
14,243
Corporate Budgeting is Broken, Let's Fix it
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-26
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 14 Aug 2002
Downloads
10,776
Paying People to Lie: The Truth About the Budgeting Process
European Financial Management, Vol. 9, pp. 379-406, September 2003
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 12 Jul 2003
Downloads
67
Downloads
14,243
12.
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
Harvard Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 6, No. 4, Winter 1994
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 07 May 2004
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1,300
The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 43-58, Winter 2010
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 31 Mar 2010
Downloads
4
Downloads
13,750
13.
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 802, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, pp. 1085-1156, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-66
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 07 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 802, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, pp. 1085-1156, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-66
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 07 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015
Downloads
11,359
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
NBER Working Paper No. w21227
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 14 Jun 2015
Downloads
56
Downloads
11,359
14.
Activity-Based Costing System Advantages and Disadvantages
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 03 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
11,322
15.
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 41-46, Winter 2002
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 17 Jan 2002
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
The Monitor Company and Harvard Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 41-46, Winter 2002
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 17 Jan 2002
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Downloads
10,830
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2010, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-090
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 05 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Downloads
2,445
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 59-63, Winter 2010
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 31 Mar 2010
Downloads
5
Downloads
10,830
16.
Corporate Budgeting is Broken, Let's Fix it
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-26
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 14 Aug 2002
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
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
Downloads
14,243
Corporate Budgeting is Broken, Let's Fix it
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-26
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 14 Aug 2002
Downloads
10,776
Paying People to Lie: The Truth About the Budgeting Process
European Financial Management, Vol. 9, pp. 379-406, September 2003
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 12 Jul 2003
Downloads
67
Downloads
10,776
17.
Compensation and Incentives: Practice vs. Theory
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 593-616, July 1998
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 24 Sep 1998
Accepted Paper Series
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
10,739
18.
Performance Pay and Top Management Incentives
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 08 Mar 2001
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Harvard Business School
Downloads
10,734
19.
Value Creation and its Measurement: A Critical Look at EVA
Cuadernos de Administración, No. 22, pp. 7-31, June 2000,
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 19 May 1999
Last Revised: 01 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Grupo Consultor CAV Capital Advisory & Valuation
Downloads
10,061
20.
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
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
9,702
21.
The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008
Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 27, 2010, pp. 257-282, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 657, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 287
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 26 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 01 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Law School
Downloads
9,660
22.
Divisional Performance Measurement
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Divisional Performance Measurement
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
Downloads
9,074
Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 49-57, Spring 2009
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 04 Jul 2009
Downloads
6
Downloads
9,074
23.
Organization Theory and Methodology
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, Accounting Review, Vol. LVIII, No. 2, pp. 319-339, April 1983
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 13 Aug 1998
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
Downloads
7,905
24.
Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital
Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper Series #06-20
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 12 Oct 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
There are 3 versions of this paper
Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital
Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper Series #06-20
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 12 Oct 2005
Downloads
7,857
Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital
Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 385-420, May 2007
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 11 Dec 2007
Downloads
10
Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital
Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 08 Jan 2007
Downloads
7,857
25.
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 09 Aug 2001
Working Paper Series
University of Colorado at Denver - Business School and University of Colorado, Boulder
There are 2 versions of this paper
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 09 Aug 2001
Downloads
7,782
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard
Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2001
Posted: 08 Jan 2002
Downloads
7,782
26.
Contracting Theory and Accounting
JAE Rochester Conference April 2000
Number of pages: 135
Posted: 17 Jan 2001
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
There are 2 versions of this paper
Contracting Theory and Accounting
JAE Rochester Conference April 2000
Number of pages: 135
Posted: 17 Jan 2001
Downloads
6,705
Contracting Theory and Accounting
Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 32, No. 1-3, December 2001
Posted: 23 Oct 2001
Downloads
6,705
27.
The Relationship between the Market Value of a Company and Internal Performance Measurements
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 07 Jan 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Pretoria and University of Pretoria
Downloads
6,052
28.
What's Really Wrong with U.S. Business Schools?
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 01 Aug 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
Downloads
5,954
29.
Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations: Course Notes (2nd of 4 Ccmo Documents)
Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 98-098
Number of pages: 110
Posted: 21 Apr 1998
Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads
5,935
30.
Environmental Management Accounting: Techniques and Benefits
Jurnal Akuntansi Universitas Jember, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 23-35
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 22 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Swinburne University of Technology
Downloads
5,925
31.
The Cost of Debt
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 14 Feb 2001
Working Paper Series
London Business School and University of Toronto - Finance Area
Downloads
5,873
32.
The Design and Use of Management Control Systems: An Extended Framework for Analysis
AAA 2006 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 04 Aug 2005
Working Paper Series
Monash University - Department of Accounting and Lancaster University
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Design and Use of Management Control Systems: An Extended Framework for Analysis
AAA 2006 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 04 Aug 2005
Downloads
5,379
The Design and Use of Management Control Systems: An Extended Framework for Analysis
Management Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 27 Jul 2009
Downloads
5,379
33.
Managing Costs and Cost Structure Throughout the Value Chain: Research on Strategic Cost Management
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 12 Dec 2005
Working Paper Series
University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management
Downloads
5,248
34.
Organizations and Markets: History and Development of the Ccmo Course and the Field (1st of 4 Ccmo Documents)
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 21 Apr 1998
Case and Teaching Paper Series
Harvard Business School, HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Finance Unit and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance
Downloads
5,139
35.
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
Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads
5,135
36.
Subjectivity and the Weighting of Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 22 May 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Management Department
There are 2 versions of this paper
Subjectivity and the Weighting of Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 22 May 2003
Downloads
4,998
Subjectivity and the Weighting of Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard
The Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 21 Jul 2003
Downloads
4,998
37.
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
Management Development Institute , Management Development Institute - Supply Chain Management Area and Securities Exchange Board of India
Downloads
4,881
38.
The Impact of Information Technology on Management Accounting Practices
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 03 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
York University
Downloads
4,820
39.
Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations: Course Content and Materials (3rd of 4 Ccmo Documents)
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 21 Apr 1998
Case and Teaching Paper Series
Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads
4,748
40.
The Impact of Activity Based Costing on Managerial Decisions at Insteel Industries - a Field Study
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 02 Sep 1999
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit and Harvard University - General Management Unit
Downloads
4,622
41.
Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations: Practice Questions (4th of 4 Ccmo Documents)
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 20 Apr 1998
Case and Teaching Paper Series
Harvard Business School, Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased), HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance
Downloads
4,578
42.
What is the Optimal Method to Value a Football Club?
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 24 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Reading - ICMA Centre
Downloads
4,551
43.
Practice Developments in Budgeting: An Overview and Research Perspective
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 28 Sep 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Southern Maine - School of Business, Lancaster University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Practice Developments in Budgeting: An Overview and Research Perspective
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 28 Sep 2003
Downloads
4,493
Practice Developments in Budgeting: An Overview and Research Perspective
Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 15, pp. 95-116, 2003
Posted: 28 Sep 2003
Downloads
4,493
44.
Calculation of Compensation Incentives and Firm-Related Wealth Using Execucomp: Data, Program, and Explanation
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 27 Jul 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Utah - Department of Finance, Drexel University - Department of Finance and Temple University - Department of Finance
Downloads
4,424
45.
An Economic Perspective on Transfer Pricing
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 26 Feb 2006
Last Revised: 27 May 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Zurich - Department of Business Administration (IBW) and University of Basel
Downloads
4,368
46.
Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective
Chapter 9 in Corporate Stewardship: Achieving Sustainable Effectiveness, edited by Ed Lawler, Sue Mohrman, and James O’Toole, Greenleaf, 2015.,
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 02 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 24 May 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads
4,346
47.
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
Miller Consultants and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads
4,312
48.
An Analysis of Eva and Other Measures of Firm Performance Based on Residual Income
Hankamer School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 22 Jul 2003
Working Paper Series
Baylor University - Department of Finance, Insurance & Real Estate, Baylor University - Department of Finance, Insurance & Real Estate and Baylor University - Department of Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
Downloads
4,271
49.
In Search of Management Accounting Theory
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 26 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
Aalto University School of Business and Turku School of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
In Search of Management Accounting Theory
European Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 20 Feb 2009
Downloads
4,234
50.
International Transfer Pricing Issues and Strategies for the Global Firm
Internal Auditing, 23(1): 12-19. 2008
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Last Revised: 06 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Deloitte & Touche LLP, Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi-Department of Accounting
Downloads
4,190
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