Henry Hansmann

Yale University - Law School

Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law

P.O. Box 208215

New Haven, CT 06520-8215

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European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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1.

What is Corporate Law?

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 300
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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legal personality, limited liability, transferable shares, delegated management, investor ownership, agency problems, default and mandatory rules, choice of law, share ownership

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The End of History for Corporate Law

Yale Law School Working Paper No. 235; NYU Working Paper No. 013; Harvard Law School Discussion Paper No. 280; Yale SOM Working Paper No. ICF - 00-09
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Mar 2000
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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The Essential Elements of Corporate Law

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2009
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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Corporation, agency problem, corporate law, corporate regulation, corporate governance, securities law, limited liability, regulatory competition, mandatory rules, comparative corporate law, evolution of corporate law

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Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21/2009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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Agency, agency cost, agency problem, appointment rights, decision rights, control rights, regulation, corporate governance, equal treatment, trustee, mandatory disclosure, enforcement, private enforcement, public enforcement, gatekeeper control

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The Essential Role of Organizational Law

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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
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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The Essential Role of Organizational Law

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 110, December 2000
Posted: 17 Aug 2001
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School

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Asset partitioning, legal entities, limited liability, property rights

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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
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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Agency, agency cost, agency problem, appointment rights, decision rights, control rights, regulation, corporate governance, equal treatment, trustee, mandatory disclosure

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Law and the Rise of the Firm

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Law and the Rise of the Firm

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Jan 2006
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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Corporations, Partnerships, Companies, History of the Firm, Entity Shielding, Limited Liability, Legal Entities, Bankruptcy

Law and the Rise of the Firm

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1333-1403, March 2006
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 31 Jul 2006
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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Law and the Rise of the Firm

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 09 Nov 2009
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

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Legal protection, Limited liability companies (LLC), Asset management, Firm ownership, Legal systems

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Foundations of Corporate Law

FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series No. 147
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2017
John Armour, Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Mariana Pargendler
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo
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Legal Personality; Limited Liability; Transferable Shares; Delegated Management; Investor Ownership; Agency Problems; Default and Mandatory Rules; Choice of Law; Share Ownership

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Reflections on the End of History for Corporate Law

Convergence of Corporate Governance: Promise and Prospects, Abdul Rasheed and Toru Yoshikawa, eds., Palgrave-MacMillan, 2012
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2012
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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corporate governance, convergence

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Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the U.S., and the EU

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 390
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 26 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2015
Ronald J. Gilson, Henry Hansmann and Mariana Pargendler
Stanford Law School, Yale University - Law School and Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo
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Corporate Governance, Regulatory Dualism, Capital Market Reform

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Property, Contract, and Verification: The Numerus Clausus Problem and the Divisibility of Rights

Harvard Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 37; Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 388
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 30 Aug 2002
Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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property, contract, property rights, contract rights, verification, notice, numerus clausus

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The Evolution of Shareholder Voting Rights: Separation of Ownership and Consumption

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 123, pp. 100-165, 2014
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 17 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2018
Henry Hansmann and Mariana Pargendler
Yale University - Law School and Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo
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Corporate Governance, History, Ownership Structure, Shareholder Voting Rights

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Corporation and Contract

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Corporation and Contract

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 66/2006
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Mar 2006
Henry Hansmann
Yale University - Law School
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Corporation and Contract

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 1-19, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Henry Hansmann
Yale University - Law School

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Firm Ownership and Organizational Form

The Handbook of Organizational Economics, Robert Gibbons and John Roberts, eds., Princeton University Press, December 2012
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2012
Henry Hansmann
Yale University - Law School
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firm structure, ownership, organizational economics, enterprise form

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The Basic Governance Structure: The Interests of Shareholders as a Class

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 337/2017
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2017
John Armour, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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Shareholder-Management Conflict; One-Tier and Two-Tier Boards; Director Appointment; Directors Removal; Decision Rights; Shareholder Coordination; Independent Directors; Executive Compensation

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The New Business Entities in Evolutionary Perspective

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The New Business Entities in Evolutionary Perspective

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 16 Feb 2005
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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Corporations, Partnerships, Organizations, History, Limited Liability Companies, Legal Entitites, Asset Partitioning

The New Business Entities in Evolutionary Perspective

European Business Organization Law Review, Vol. 8, 2007
Posted: 16 May 2007
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

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corporations; partnerships; organizations; history; limited liability companies; legal entities; asset partitioning

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Higher Education as an Associative Good

Yale Law and Economics Working Paper No. 231; Yale ICF Working Paper No. 99-15
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 05 Dec 1999
Henry Hansmann
Yale University - Law School
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Globalizing Commercial Litigation

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Globalizing Commercial Litigation

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 357
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2008
Jens Dammann and Henry Hansmann
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Yale University - Law School
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adjudication, arbitration, courts, competition, choice of forum, international litigation, choice of law, contracts, rule of law, regulatory competition, development

Globalizing Commercial Litigation

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 07 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2009
Jens Dammann and Henry Hansmann
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Yale University - Law School
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adjudication, arbitration, courts, competition, choice of forum, international litigation, choice of law, contracts, rule of law, regulatory competition, development

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Extraterritorial Courts for Corporate Law

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 43/2005
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 May 2005
Henry Hansmann and Jens Dammann
Yale University - Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
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extraterritorial, courts, Delaware, regulatory competition, arbitration, soverignity, jurisdiction

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External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and Their Subsidiaries

The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2018
Henry Hansmann and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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asset partitioning, corporations, subsidiaries, corporate groups, external partitioning, internal partitioning, creditor remedies, veil piercing, enterprise liability

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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 19 Corporate Law Professors, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2015
John C. Coates, IV, Lucian A. Bebchuk, Bernard S. Black, John C. Coffee, James D. Cox, Ronald J. Gilson, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Henry Hansmann, Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Marcel Kahan, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, Michael Klausner, Reinier Kraakman, Donald C. Langevoort, Brian JM Quinn, Edward B. Rock, Mark J. Roe and Helen S. Scott
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Columbia Law School, Duke University School of Law, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, Widener University Delaware Law School, Yale University - Law School, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, BC Law School, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School and New York University (NYU)
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corporate politics, union politics, First Amendment, shareholder rights, corporate speech

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A Global Market for Judicial Services

U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 98
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 31 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2015
Jens Dammann and Henry Hansmann
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Yale University - Law School
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Judicial services, arbitration, courts, competition, choice of forum, international litigation, choice of law, corporations, regulatory competition, development

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The Governance of Foundation-Owned Firms

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Feb 2018
Henry Hansmann and Steen Thomsen
Yale University - Law School and Copenhagen Business School
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Industrial Foundations; Nonprofit Firms; Denmark; Behavioral Economics; Theory of the Firm; Identity Economics; Managerial Incentives; Non-pecuniary Incentives; Corporate Governance; Fiduciaries; Managerial Agency Costs; Foundation Governance Index

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All Firms are Cooperatives – And so are Governments

Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1-10, 2013.
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 29 Jan 2014
Henry Hansmann
Yale University - Law School
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Entrepreneurship, cooperatives, nonprofit organizations, public enterprises, private enterprises, governance, firm organization

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Legal Entities as Transferable Bundles of Contracts

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 07 May 2012
Kenneth Ayotte and Henry Hansmann
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Yale University - Law School
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legal entities, subsidiaries, assignment, theory of the firm

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Royalties for Artists Versus Royalties for Authors and Composers

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Royalties for Artists Versus Royalties for Authors and Composers

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 250
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Apr 2001
Henry Hansmann and Marina Santilli
Yale University - Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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droit de suite, royalties, artists, authors, commissions

Royalties for Artists Versus Royalties for Authors and Composers

Forthcoming in Journal of Cultural Economics
Posted: 09 Aug 2001
Henry Hansmann and Marina Santilli
Yale University - Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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droit de suite, royalties, artists, authors, commissions

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Incomplete Organizations: Legal Entities and Asset Partitioning in Roman Commerce

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 271/2014
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2014
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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asset partitioning, entity shielding, limited liability, legal history, Ancient Rome, business organizations, corporations

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Ownership Form and Trapped Capital in the Hospital Industry

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Ownership Form and Trapped Capital in the Hospital Industry

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 266
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Dec 2002
Henry Hansmann, Daniel P. Kessler and Mark B. McClellan
Yale University - Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Brookings Institution
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nonprofit, hospitals, exit, capacity, capital, ownership, supply response

Ownership Form and Trapped Capital in the Hospital Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w8989
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Jun 2002 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2010
Henry Hansmann, Daniel P. Kessler and Mark B. McClellan
Yale University - Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Brookings Institution
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Firm Ownership: The Legacy of Grossman and Hart

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 26 Jul 2015
Henry Hansmann
Yale University - Law School
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Theory of the Firm, Ownership, Property Rights, Cooperatives, Government

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The Evolving Economic Structure of Higher Education

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 79, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2012
Henry Hansmann
Yale University - Law School
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higher education, universities, colleges, privatization, ownership, governmental services

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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 22 Corporate Law Professors, Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et aL, No. 16-1466

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Jan 2018
John C. Coates, IV, Lucian A. Bebchuk, John C. Coffee, Bernard S. Black, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, James D. Cox, Marcel Kahan, Reinier Kraakman, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Ronald J. Gilson, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, Michael Klausner, Henry Hansmann, Donald C. Langevoort, Brian JM Quinn, Michal Barzuza, Mira Ganor, Edward B. Rock, Mark J. Roe, Helen S. Scott, Holger Spamann and Randall S. Thomas
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School, Duke University School of Law, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Stanford Law School, University of Michigan Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale University - Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, BC Law School, University of Virginia School of LawUniversity of Virginia - School of Law, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, New York University (NYU), Harvard Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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corporate politics, union politics, First Amendment, shareholder rights, corporate speech

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The Performance of Foundation-Owned Companies

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Oct 2014
Steen Thomsen and Henry Hansmann
Copenhagen Business School and Yale University - Law School
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The Governance of Foundation-Owned Firms

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2018
Henry Hansmann and Steen Thomsen
Yale University - Law School and Copenhagen Business School
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corporate governance, industrial foundations

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Managerial Distance and Virtual Ownership: The Governance of Industrial Foundations

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 372
Posted: 06 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2018
Henry Hansmann and Steen Thomsen
Yale University - Law School and Copenhagen Business School

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The Functions of Trust Law: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis

New York University Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 1, 1998
Posted: 09 Oct 1998
Henry Hansmann and Ugo Mattei
Yale University - Law School and University of California Hastings College of the Law

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Ownership of the Firm

THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS AND THE LAW, 1998.
Posted: 31 Aug 1998
Henry Hansmann
Yale University - Law School

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Employee Ownership of Firms

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 1998
Posted: 17 Aug 1998
Henry Hansmann
Yale University - Law School

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