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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
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 56,918
2.

ESG and Financial Performance: Aggregated Evidence from More than 2000 Empirical Studies

Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 210-233, 2015, DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2015.1118917
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg and University of Hamburg
Downloads 16,185
3.

The Making and Meaning of ESG

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-23, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 659/2022, Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 14, p. 403, 2024
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2024
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Institute for Law and Economics; European Corporate Governance Institute
Downloads 15,427
4.

Crowdfunding: Tapping the Right Crowd

Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29(5), 585-609, CORE Discussion Paper No. 2011/32
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 30 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2014
Accepted Paper Series
CORE/LIDAM, UCLouvain (Université Catholique de Louvain), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and SKEMA Business School

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Downloads 15,384
5.

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
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 15,062
6.

A Review of Tax Research

Number of pages: 138 Posted: 23 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 12,109
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
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 11,762
8.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Performance

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 May 2006
Working Paper Series
University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Arizona State University-School of Public Affairs
Downloads 9,214
9.

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

Journal of Political Economy, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 511/2017
Number of pages: 113 Posted: 03 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2022
Accepted Paper Series
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance

Multiple version iconThere are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,662
10.

An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Corporate Governance Mechanisms on the Performance of UK Firms

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Oct 2001
Working Paper Series
Robert Gordon University - Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University - Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) and University of St. Andrews - School of Management
Downloads 8,125
11.

Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market Value

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 521/2017
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Downloads 7,670
12.

Corporate Governance and the Returns on Investment

EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Presented Paper; and ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 06/2003
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 23 Apr 2003
Working Paper Series
Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of Vienna - Center for Business Studies - Department of Economics and WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
Downloads 7,435
13.

Business Cases for Sustainability: The Role of Business Model Innovation for Corporate Sustainability

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 95-119
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 May 2012 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Leuphana University of Lueneburg, University of Hamburg, Chair of Capital Markets and Management and Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz
Downloads 7,423
14.

Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Much Difference Does Difference Make?

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 39, No. 2 pp. 377-426, 2014
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
Downloads 7,362
15.

Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers

Benson, Alan. "Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales manages." Journal of Labor Economics, 33(4): 863-90.
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
Downloads 6,973
16.

Competitiveness of Firms: Review of Theory, Frameworks and Models

Singapore Management Review, Vol 26, No. 1, (2004) p. 45-61
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 Sep 2012
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB)
Downloads 6,837
17.

Mandatory CSR and Sustainability Reporting: Economic Analysis and Literature Review

European Corporate Governance Institute - Finance Working Paper No. 623/2019
Number of pages: 121 Posted: 31 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 20 May 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Downloads 6,809
18.

The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 74/2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 301, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 04 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School

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Downloads 6,580
19.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder's Value: An Event Study Analysis

FRB of Atlanta Working Paper No. 2007-6, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 1/2009
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Sep 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics, Tor Vergata University of Rome - Department of Economics and Finance and Fordham University
Downloads 6,321
20.

An Overview of Organizational Performance Index: Definitions and Measurements

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 28 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Malaya, Malaysia, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Science
Downloads 6,077
21.

'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility

Academy of Management Review Vol. 33, No. 2
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jan 2010
Accepted Paper Series
York University - Schulich School of Business and Nottingham University Business School (NUBS)
Downloads 5,895
22.

Video: The Three Foundations of A Great Life, Great Leadership, and A Great Organization

Barbados Group Working Paper No. 11-04, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Research Paper No. 11-122
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 10 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Working Paper Series
Independent and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 5,875
23.

Why Do Companies Go Woke?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Dec 2022
Working Paper Series
Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation and Baylor University - Hankamer School of Business
Downloads 5,812
24.

A Study of the Construction of BCG Matrix for Nestle India

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 25 May 2008
Working Paper Series
Supreme Court of India
Downloads 5,738
25.

Economic Analysis of Widespread Adoption of CSR and Sustainability Reporting Standards

Number of pages: 170 Posted: 25 Jan 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 5,737
26.

A Survey of Fintech Research and Policy Discussion

Review of Corporate Finance 1 (2021), 259-339, FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 20-21
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Imperial College London, Durham University Business School and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Downloads 5,715
27.

Paid and Free Digital Business Models Innovations in the Video Game Industry

Digiworld Economic Journal, No. 94, 2nd Q. 2014, p. 83
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST)
Downloads 5,404
28.

Performance Measurement Using Balanced Score Card

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012
Accepted Paper Series
School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad
Downloads 5,397
29.

The Business Models and Economics of Peer-to-Peer Lending

ECRI Research Report, 2016, No 17
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
Loughborough University - School of Business and Economics and Loughborough University - School of Business and Economics
Downloads 5,289
30.

Socially Responsible Firms

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 432/2014
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 12 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2016
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Tilburg University - Department of Finance

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Downloads 4,982
31.

Computational Antitrust: An Introduction and Research Agenda

Stanford Computational Antitrust (Vol. 1) 2021
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Jan 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Downloads 4,951
32.

Towards a Conceptual Framework of 'Business Models for Sustainability'

KNOWLEDGE COLLABORATION & LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION, R. Wever, J. Quist, A. Tukker, J. Woudstra, F. Boons, N. Beute, eds., Delft, 2010, ERSCP-EMSU Conference 2010, The Netherlands, October 25-29, 2010
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Dec 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Hamburg, Chair of Capital Markets and Management
Downloads 4,836
33.

Corporate Social Responsibility: International Perspectives

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 16 May 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Illinois at Chicago, Arizona State University-School of Public Affairs and Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Downloads 4,786
34.

Case Study of the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Merger

U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-21
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Downloads 4,754
35.

Horizontal Shareholding

109 Harvard Law Review 1267 (2016), Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 16-17
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads 4,743
36.

Business Strategy and the Environment: Tesco PLC’s Declining Financial Performance and Underlying Issues

Review of Business & Finance Studies, v. 6 (3) p. 91-103
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 Feb 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Middlesex University and Middlesex University
Downloads 4,522
37.

Economic Aspects of Bitcoin and Other Decentralized Public-Ledger Currency Platforms

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 685
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 17 May 2014
Working Paper Series
Market Platform Dynamics
Downloads 4,503
38.

The Economics of Accounting

Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 May 2018 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2024
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University in Saint Louis - Olin Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and National University of Singapore
Downloads 4,420
39.

Fintech Lending: Financial Inclusion, Risk Pricing, and Alternative Information

FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 17-17
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Jul 2017
Working Paper Series
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Downloads 4,367
40.

A 'Value-Free' Approach to Values (PDF File of Powerpoint Slides)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 11-010, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 10-06, Simon School Working Paper No. FR10-26
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2022
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Independent
Downloads 4,359
41.

Moving Towards Stakeholderism? Constituency Statutes, Enlightened Shareholder Value and All That: Much Ado About Little?

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 04 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds - School of Law
Downloads 4,202
42.

Emergence of Payment Systems in the Age of Electronic Commerce: The State of Art

Global Journal of International Business Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2009
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Jan 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Delhi
Downloads 4,147
43.

Principal Costs: A New Theory for Corporate Law and Governance

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 117, No. 767, 2017, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2571739, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-462
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 03 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia Law School and Fordham University School of Law
Downloads 3,818
44.

Product Market Threats, Payouts, and Financial Flexibility

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Downloads 3,695
45.

The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Apr 2008
Working Paper Series
City University of New York (CUNY) - Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems & Statistics and City University of New York (CUNY) - Koppelman School of Business
Downloads 3,692
46.

Accountability and Responsibility in Corporate Governance

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming, Univ. of Illinois Law & Economics, Research Paper Series, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Jun 2005
Accepted Paper Series
University of Illinois College of Law (deceased)
Downloads 3,580
47.

Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions

Forthcoming, Long Range Planning
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
University of California, Irvine, Old Dominion University, Old Dominion University - Strome College of Business and Bryant University
Downloads 3,545
48.

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
Accepted Paper Series
The Monitor Company and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 3,534
49.

Hacking Corporate Reputations

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3143740, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 948/2024
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 19 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2024
Working Paper Series
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Pennsylvania State University - Department of Finance, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 3,513
50.

Economic Analysis of Widespread Adoption of CSR and Sustainability Reporting Standards: Structured Overview of CSR Literature

Number of pages: 117 Posted: 14 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 3,450