Steen Thomsen

Copenhagen Business School

Professor

Porcelaenshaven 24A

Copenhagen, 2000

Denmark

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

Belgium

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1.

Trust Ownership of the Tata Group

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Dec 2011
Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School
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trusts, industrial foundations, Tata

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Lockdowns and COVID-19 Deaths in Scandinavia

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Jun 2020
Martin Conyon, Lerong He and Steen Thomsen
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, SUNY College at Brockport and Copenhagen Business School
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COVID-19, Scandinavia, Lockdowns

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The Governance of Foundation-Owned Firms

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Nov 2020
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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Foundation Ownership at IKEA

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 12 Sep 2018
Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School
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Foundation Ownership, Governance, Values

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Value Creation and Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Nov 2020
Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School
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Value creation, ESG, sustainability, shareholder value, corporate objectives, performance measures, corporate governance

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Delistings in Europe and the Costs of Governance

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Sep 2007
Steen Thomsen and Frederik Vinten
Copenhagen Business School and Copenhagen Business School - Center for Economic and Business Research (CEBR)
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delisting, public listing, mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcy, liquidation, going private, private equity, investor protection

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Industrial Foundations as Long-Term Owners

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 556/2018
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 02 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2018
Steen Thomsen, Thomas Poulsen, Christa Børsting and Johan Kuhn
Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Economics and Management, Center for Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School - Department of International Economics and Management, Students and Copenhagen Business School
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Corporate Governance, Industrial foundations, Long-termism

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Sustainable Corporate Governance. An Overview and an Assessment.

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Jun 2023
Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School
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sustainability, corporate social responsibility, ownership, incentives, corporate governance

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Response to the Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence by Nordic and Baltic Company Law Scholars

Nordic & European Company Law Working Paper No. 22-01
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Jun 2022
Paul Krüger Andersen, Niklas Arvidsson, Gintautas Bartkus, Andri Fannar Bergthórsson, Virginijus Bitė, Søren Friis Hansen, Jesper Lau Hansen, Svante Johansson, Morten Kinander, Mårten Knuts, Erik Lidman, Troels Michael Lilja, Paulius Miliauskas, Paulius Miliauskas, Matti J. Sillanpää, Gustaf Sjöberg, Daniel Stattin, Therese Strand, Rebecca Söderström, Steen Thomsen, Veikko Vahtera, Seppo Villa, Andres Vutt, Margit Vutt and Jessica Östberg
Aarhus University, Lund University, Vilnius University - Law Faculty, University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law, Mykolas Romeris University, Copenhagen Business School - CBS Law, University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law (FOCOFIMA), Linklaters, BI Norwegian Business School, Helsinki University, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law, Copenhagen Business School - CBS Law, Vilnius University - Faculty of LawGhent University - Faculty of Law, University of Turku - Turku School of Economics, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Copenhagen Business School, Center for Corporate Governance, Uppsala University, Copenhagen Business School, Tampere University, Helsinki University, University of Tartu, School of Law, University of Tartu, School of Law and Stockholm University
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Corporate sustainability due diligence

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Is WACC out of Whack? Capital Costs and Short-Termism

Ronald J. Gilson, Mats Isaksson, Erik Lidman Johan Munck and Erik Sjöman (eds). Festschrift in honour of Rolf Skog – Festskrift till Rolf Skog. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm 2021.ISBN: 9789139025246
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2021
Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School
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WACC, short-termism

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Enterprise Foundations. A Review. Law, Taxation, Governance, and Performance

Annals of Corporate Governance: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp 227–333 (2022), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/109.00000031
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 06 Aug 2022
Steen Thomsen and Nikolaos Kavadis
Copenhagen Business School and Copenhagen Business School
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enterprise foundations, industrial foundations, economic performance, law, taxation, sustainability, corporate governance

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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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Foundation Ownership, Reputation, and Labour

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2020
Christa Børsting and Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School - Department of International Economics and Management, Students and Copenhagen Business School
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Foundation Ownership, Reputation, Labour, Corporate Governance

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On the Internationalization of Corporate Boards

IFN Working Paper No. 951
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2014
Lars Oxelheim, Aleksandra Gregoric, Trond Randøy and Steen Thomsen
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Copenhagen Business School, University of Agder - School of Management and Copenhagen Business School
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internationalization, international directors, international board experience, board composition, nomination committee, corporate governance

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Changing the Corporate Elite? Not so Easy: Female Directors’ Appointments onto Corporate Boards

Journal of Business Ethics (Forthcoming), IFN Working Paper No. 978
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2015
Aleksandra Gregoric, Lars Oxelheim, Trond Randøy and Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), University of Agder - School of Management and Copenhagen Business School
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social identity, board of director, gender diversity

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COVID-19 in Scandinavia

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Mar 2021
Martin Conyon and Steen Thomsen
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Copenhagen Business School
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COVID-19, Lockdown, Government Policy

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Foreign Ownership and Long-term Survival

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 May 2007
Dorte Kronborg and Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School and Copenhagen Business School
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ownership, survival, foreignness, subsidiaries

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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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Shareholder Litigation and Carbon Emissions

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 May 2024
SIRIMON TREEPONGKARUNA, Kriengkrai Boonlert-U-Thai, Steen Thomsen and Pornsit Jiraporn
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Chulalongkorn University, Copenhagen Business School and Pennsylvania State University - School of Graduate Professional Studies (SGPS)
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Shareholder litigation rights, Carbon emissions, Universal demand laws, Stakeholder legitimacy, trade-off hypothesis.

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European Patterns of Corporate Ownership: A Twelve-Country Study

Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 759-778, 1997
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Apr 2011
Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School
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How Enterprise Foundations Can Sustain Sustainability. The European Relevance of a Nordic Ownership Model

Chapter 5 in Beate Sjåfjell and Jukka Mähönen (eds), Nordic Company Law: Broadening the Horizon (Scandinavian University Press, 2023) , University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2023-11
Posted: 17 Nov 2023
Rasmus Kristian Feldthusen and Steen Thomsen
University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law and Copenhagen Business School

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Enterprise foundations, Sustainability, Philanthropy, Long-term Ownership, Stewardship

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Managerial Distance and Virtual Ownership: The Governance of Industrial Foundations

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 372, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 467
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 Hidden Meaning of Codes: Corporate Governance and Investor Rent Seeking

European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR), Vol. 7, 2006
Posted: 19 Feb 2007
Steen Thomsen
Copenhagen Business School

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Codes, corporate governance, institutional investors, political economy

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Ownership, firm value, dividends, international corporate governance