William Lazonick

The Academic-Industry Research Network

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Apple's Changing Business Model: What Should the World's Richest Company Do with All Those Profits?

Accounting Forum, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Aug 2013
William Lazonick, Mariana Mazzucato and Öner Tulum
The Academic-Industry Research Network, University of York - Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and SOAS University of London
Downloads 830 (33,272)
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Apple's business model, Risk-reward nexus, Innovative enterprise, Stock repurchase

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The Functions of the Stock Market and the Fallacies of Shareholder Value

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 58
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2017
William Lazonick
The Academic-Industry Research Network
Downloads 416 (80,897)
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Corporate governance, stock market, maximize shareholder value (MSV), stock-based compensation, stock buybacks, innovation, speculation, manipulation, innovation theory, agency theory, shareholder value ideology

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US Pharma's Financialized Business Model

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 60
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Sep 2017
William Lazonick, Matt Hopkins, Ken Jacobson, Mustafa Erdem Sakinç and Öner Tulum
The Academic-Industry Research Network, The Academic-Industry Research Network, The Academic-Industry Research Network, The Academic-Industry Research Network and SOAS University of London
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Pharmaceutical drugs, innovation, financialization, price-gouging, stock buybacks, executive pay, shareholder value

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US Biopharmaceutical Finance and the Sustainability of the Biotech Business Model

Research Policy, Vol. 40, No. 11, 2011
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Apr 2013
William Lazonick and Öner Tulum
The Academic-Industry Research Network and SOAS University of London
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Business Model, Product Design, Qualitative Research, Innovation Policy, Health Innovation, Academic Spin-offs, Medical Devices, R&D Policy

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Innovative Enterprise Solves the Agency Problem: The Theory of the Firm, Financial Flows, and Economic Performance

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 62
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Dec 2017
William Lazonick
The Academic-Industry Research Network
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Innovation theory, agency theory, maximize shareholder value (MSV), stock buybacks, value creation, value extraction, corporate governance, shareholder value ideology

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The Value-Extracting CEO: How Executive Stock-Based Pay Undermines Investment in Productive Capabilities

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 54
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Jun 2017
William Lazonick
The Academic-Industry Research Network
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corporation, senior executive, stock-based compensation, stock prices, stock buybacks, innovation, speculation, manipulation, innovation theory, agency theory, shareholder-value ideology

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Labor in the Twenty-First Century: The Top 0.1 percent and the Disappearing Middle-Class

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Sep 2014
William Lazonick
The Academic-Industry Research Network
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maximizing shareholder value, skill-biased technical change, New Economy business model, financialization of the U.S. Business Corporation, stock buybacks

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The Mismeasure of Mammon: Uses and Abuses of Executive Pay Data

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 49
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 01 Dec 2016
Matt Hopkins and William Lazonick
The Academic-Industry Research Network and The Academic-Industry Research Network
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Executive compensation, stock-based pay, stock options, stock awards, estimated fair value, actual realized gains, ExecuComp, SEC, FASB

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Skill Development and Sustainable Prosperity: Cumulative and Collective Careers versus Skill-Biased Technical Change

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 15
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 01 Aug 2015
William Lazonick, Philip Moss, Hal Salzman and Öner Tulum
The Academic-Industry Research Network, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Rutgers University and SOAS University of London
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Organizational Learning, Technological Change, Skills, Careers, High Technology, Innovative Enterprise, Productivity

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Who Invests in the High-Tech Knowledge Base?

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 14
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 01 Aug 2015
Matt Hopkins and William Lazonick
The Academic-Industry Research Network and The Academic-Industry Research Network
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Knowledge, Investment, Innovation, R&D, Universities, Productivity

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Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy? Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 111
https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp111
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Feb 2020
William Lazonick
The Academic-Industry Research Network
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Theory of the firm, Penrosian learning, Chandlerian history, innovative enterprise, economic performance, Paul Samuelson, neoclassical fallacy, constrained optimization, historical transformation

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Omission

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 53
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Jun 2017
William Lazonick, Philip Moss and Joshua Weitz
The Academic-Industry Research Network, University of Massachusetts Lowell and The Academic-Industry Research Network
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employment opportunity, employment relations, blue-collar workers, white- collar workers, corporate governance, financialization, racial discrimination, African Americans, middle class, intergenerational economic mobility

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How “Maximizing Shareholder Value” Minimized the Strategic National Stockpile: The $5.3 Trillion Question for Pandemic Preparedness Raised by the Ventilator Fiasco

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 127
https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp127
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2020
William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins
The Academic-Industry Research Network and The Academic-Industry Research Network
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pandemic preparedness, government-business collaborations, Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), Biomedical Research and Development Authority (BARDA), ventilators, innovative enterprise, maximizing shareholder value, stock buybacks, predatory value extraction, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Apple, Business R

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Employment and Earnings of African Americans Fifty Years After: Progress?

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 129
https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp129
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2020
William Lazonick, Philip Moss and Joshua Weitz
The Academic-Industry Research Network, affiliation not provided to SSRN and The Academic-Industry Research Network
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African American, occupations, industries, education, employment opportunity, employment relations, income distribution, wealth accumulation, stock buybacks

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How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 125
https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp125
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2020
William Lazonick, Philip Moss and Joshua Weitz
The Academic-Industry Research Network, affiliation not provided to SSRN and The Academic-Industry Research Network
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African American, employment relations, equal employment opportunity, unions, blue-collar, socioeconomic mobility, corporate governance, shareholder value, retain-and-reinvest, downsize-and-distribute, discrimination, economic inequality