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1.

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
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 56,494
2.

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 20,331
3.

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 16,087
4.

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: 10 Jun 2024
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 15,040
5.

Libertarian Paternalism is Not an Oxymoron

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 May 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 13,046
6.

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 12,093
7.

The Free Cash Flow Theory of Takeovers: A Financial Perspective on Mergers and Acquisitions and the Economy

"The Merger Boom", Proceedings of a Conference sponsored by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, pp. 102-143, October 1987
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 08 Feb 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 11,745
8.

Origin of the Theory of Agency: An Account By One of the Theory's Originators

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
Barry M. Mitnick
University of Pittsburgh
Downloads 10,955
9.

Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, 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: 133 Posted: 09 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Accepted Paper Series
John R. Graham, Jillian Grennan, Campbell R. Harvey and Shivaram Rajgopal
Duke University, Emory University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation

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Downloads 10,571
10.

Literature Review - Knowledge Management Research at the Organizational Level

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Jun 2007
Working Paper Series
David A. Bray
Institute for Defense Analyses
Downloads 10,429
11.

The Economics of Privacy

Journal of Economic Literature, 54(2): 442-492 (2016) http://doi.org/10.1257/jel.54.2.442, Sloan Foundation Economics Research Paper No. 2580411
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 07 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Alessandro Acquisti, Curtis R. Taylor and Liad Wagman
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Duke University - Department of Economics and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) - Lally School of Management & Technology
Downloads 10,388
12.

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 (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Downloads 10,299
13.

The Global Automotive Industry Value Chain: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries

UNIDO Sectorial Studies Series Working Paper
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 02 Sep 2003
Working Paper Series
John Humphrey and Olga Memedovic
University of Sussex - Institute of Development Studies and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation - Strategic Research and Economics
Downloads 9,683
14.

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 9,336
15.

Is Disruptive Blockchain Technology the Future of Financial Services?

69 The Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 232 (2016)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 31 May 2016 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Lawrence J. Trautman
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads 9,086
16.

Who Wins in a Dynamic World: Theory of Constraints Vs. Activity-Based Costing?

North American Assoc. for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) Conference, June 2007
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 09 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2008
Working Paper Series
Robin Cooper, David A. Bray and Michael I. Parzen
Emory University - Goizueta Business School, Institute for Defense Analyses and Emory University - Goizueta Business School
Downloads 9,068
17.

Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 8,546
18.

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

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Downloads 8,423
19.

Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 12-074, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 12-01, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) – Finance Working Paper No. 417/2014
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Independent and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Downloads 8,211
20.

Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, p. 253, 2009
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Michael Simkovic
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Downloads 7,378
21.

Contracting Theory and Accounting

Number of pages: 135 Posted: 17 Jan 2001
Working Paper Series
Richard A. Lambert
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

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Downloads 7,334
22.

The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, March 2009, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 344, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 627, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-63
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
C. Scott Hemphill and Jeannie Suk Gersen
New York University School of Law and Harvard Law School
Downloads 7,026
23.

How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared

Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-07, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-54
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
Paul J. Heald
University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads 6,951
24.

Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 May 1997
Working Paper Series
George P. Baker, Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 6,333
25.

New Institutional Economics

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Sep 1998
Working Paper Series
Peter G. Klein
Baylor University - Hankamer School of Business

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Downloads 6,268
26.

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
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased) and William H. Meckling
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads 6,209
27.

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

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Downloads 5,915
28.

Disrupting Governance: The New Institutional Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Jul 2016
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Sinclair Davidson, Primavera De Filippi and Jason Potts
RMIT University, Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University)
Downloads 5,892
29.

Law and Blockchain: A Legal Perspective on Current Regulatory Trends Worldwide

Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier (Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Law Review) RTDF N°4-2017 - December 2017
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 11 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Stéphane Blemus
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Sorbonne Law School
Downloads 5,621
30.

The Essential Role of Organizational Law

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Jun 2000
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Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School

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Downloads 5,547
31.

Social Capital: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, Eric L. Lesser, ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston, MA, pp. 89-115, 2000, Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. MKT 03-09
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2014
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Paul S. Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon
University of Southern California - Management and Organization Department and University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business
Downloads 5,376
32.

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
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased), George P. Baker, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Karen H. Wruck
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance
Downloads 5,334
33.

The Failure of Good Intentions: The WorldCom Fraud and the Collapse of American Telecommunications After Deregulation

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 207-267, 2003
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Oct 2002 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
J. Gregory Sidak
Criterion Economics, LLC
Downloads 5,291
34.

Regulating LIBRA: The Transformative Potential of Facebook’s Cryptocurrency and Possible Regulatory Responses

European Banking Institute Working Paper Series 2019/44, University of New South Wales Law Research Series UNSWLRS 19-47 , University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2019/042, University of Luxembourg Faculty of Law Research Paper, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Dirk A. Zetzsche, Ross P. Buckley and Douglas W. Arner
Universite du Luxembourg - Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - UNSW Law & Justice and The University of Hong Kong
Downloads 5,073
35.

An Economic Perspective on Transfer Pricing

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 26 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 27 May 2009
Working Paper Series
Robert F. Göx and Ulf Schiller
University of Zurich - Managerial Accounting and University of Basel
Downloads 5,055
36.

Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review, March, 2013, pp. 44-56
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Larry Downes and Paul Nunes
Larry Downes Consulting Group and Accenture Institute for High Performance
Downloads 4,993
37.

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
Karen H. Wruck and Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 4,983
38.

Virtual Currencies; Bitcoin & What Now after Liberty Reserve, Silk Road, and Mt. Gox?

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2014
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 11 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Lawrence J. Trautman
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads 4,952
39.

Agency Problems and Legal Strategies

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 4,945
40.

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 (Deceased)
The Monitor Company and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 4,914
41.

Blockchain Code as Antitrust

Berkeley Technology Law Journal
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 May 2020 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Thibault Schrepel and Vitalik Buterin
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Ethereum Foundation
Downloads 4,848
42.

A Corporate Culture Channel: How Increased Shareholder Governance Reduces Firm Value

Number of pages: 106 Posted: 27 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
Jillian Grennan
Emory University
Downloads 4,820
43.

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
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased), William H. Meckling, George P. Baker and Karen H. Wruck
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased), HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance
Downloads 4,778
44.

FinTech Platforms and Strategy

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5183-16
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2017
Working Paper Series
Vasant Dhar and Roger Stein
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Sloan School of Management, MIT
Downloads 4,714
45.

Foundations of Corporate Law

FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series No. 147, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 336/2017
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
John Armour, Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Mariana Pargendler
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
Downloads 4,712
46.

The Rise and Fall of the First American Patent Thicket: The Sewing Machine War of the 1850s

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 53, pp. 165-211, 2011, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-19
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Adam Mossoff
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
Downloads 4,558
47.

The Future of Data-Driven Finance and RegTech: Lessons from EU Big Bang II

European Banking Institute Working Paper Series 2019/35, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 19-22, University of Luxembourg Law Working Paper No. 005-2019, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2019/004
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 27 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2019
Working Paper Series
Dirk A. Zetzsche, Douglas W. Arner, Ross P. Buckley and Rolf H. Weber
Universite du Luxembourg - Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - UNSW Law & Justice and University of Zurich - Faculty of Law
Downloads 4,456
48.

Corporate Culture: The Interview Evidence

Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-42, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-70
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
John R. Graham, Jillian Grennan, Campbell R. Harvey and Shivaram Rajgopal
Duke University, Emory University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation
Downloads 4,370
49.

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, Yaniv Grinstein and Yaniv Grinstein
Harvard Law School and Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) HerzliyahCornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Downloads 4,361
50.

The Role of Continuous Delivery in IT and Organizational Performance

Forsgren, N., J. Humble (2016). "The Role of Continuous Delivery in IT and Organizational Performance." In the Proceedings of the Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI) 2016, Las Vegas, NV.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 31 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble
GitHub and University of California, Berkeley - School of Information
Downloads 4,231