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- 2011
- Module Note
Insights into Governance at Wipro Ltd.: A Case Study
By: Shashank Shah
Shah, Shashank. "Insights into Governance at Wipro Ltd.: A Case Study." 2011.
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation
As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges, nor point us toward the best solutions. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an... View Details
- 2014
- Article
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?
By: Christopher Marquis and Cuili Qian
This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Theory; Political Strategy; Non-market Strategy; China; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emerging Markets; Government and Politics; China
Marquis, Christopher, and Cuili Qian. "Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?" Organization Science 25, no. 1 (January–February 2014): 127–148.
- 2001
- Chapter
Human Capital and Corporate Governance
By: Eric J. Van den Steen and John Roberts
Van den Steen, Eric J., and John Roberts. "Human Capital and Corporate Governance." In Corporate Governance: Essays in Honor of Horst Albach, edited by Horst Albach and Joachim Schwalbach, 128–144. Publications of the Society for Economics and Management at Humboldt University Berlin. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
- Article
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
By: Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick
Gompers, Paul A., Joy L. Ishii, and Andrew Metrick. "Corporate Governance and Equity Prices." Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, no. 1 (February 2003). (Winner of Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research presented by Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.)
- 2010
- Book
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation
By: Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss
After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Markets; Business and Government Relations; Research
Balleisen, Edward J., and David A. Moss, eds. Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- August–September 2012
- Article
The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the 21st Century
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Predicting the challenges boards will face in the years ahead requires an understanding of how they and the governance they have provided has evolved in past years, as well as the challenges they face in the years ahead. Since I have been serving on and doing research... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Governance; Succession; Compensation; Governing and Advisory Boards
Lorsch, Jay W. "The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the 21st Century." European Financial Review (August–September 2012), 2–4.
- 1984
- Book
The Modern Theory of Corporate Finance
By: Michael C. Jensen and Clifford H. Smith Jr.
Keywords: Corporate Finance
Jensen, Michael C. and Clifford H. Smith Jr., eds. The Modern Theory of Corporate Finance. McGraw-Hill, 1984.
- 1999
- Article
Corporate Governance and British Industry
By: G. Jones
Jones, G. "Corporate Governance and British Industry." Entreprises et histoire 21 (1999): 29–43.
- September 1989
- Background Note
Industrial Governance and Corporate Performance
By: John T. Dunlop and Malcolm S. Salter
Dunlop, John T., and Malcolm S. Salter. "Industrial Governance and Corporate Performance." Harvard Business School Background Note 390-032, September 1989.
- 13 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The European Commission’s Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
- 14 Oct 2019
- News
A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
- July 2021
- Article
Multinationality and Capital Structure Dynamics: A Corporate Governance Explanation
By: Daniel Gyimah, Nana Abena Kwansa, Anthony K. Kyiu and Anywhere Sikochi
This paper examines the impact of corporate governance on capital structure dynamics. Using ordinary least squares regressions on 17,496 firm-year observations for 2,294 U.S. multinational companies (MNCs) over the period 1990–2018, we find that MNCs with strong... View Details
Keywords: Multinationality; Speed Of Adjustment; Corporate Governance; Multinational Firms and Management; Capital Structure
Gyimah, Daniel, Nana Abena Kwansa, Anthony K. Kyiu, and Anywhere Sikochi. "Multinationality and Capital Structure Dynamics: A Corporate Governance Explanation." Art. 101758. International Review of Financial Analysis 76 (July 2021).
- Article
The Need for Improved Corporate Governance
By: William W. George
Keywords: Corporate Governance
George, William W. "The Need for Improved Corporate Governance." Corporate Board (January–February 2003).
- January 2017
- Background Note
Elements of Japanese Corporate Governance
By: Lena Goldberg and Joseph Badaracco
Goldberg, Lena, and Joseph Badaracco. "Elements of Japanese Corporate Governance." Harvard Business School Background Note 317-093, January 2017.
- March 2015
- Case
Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments
By: George Serafeim
The Statoil case describes the challenge of increasing transparency, in extractive industries, around host county government payments. The case describes Statoil's reasoning behind voluntarily disclosing host country government payments, and the events that led to this... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Disclosure; Disclosure Strategy; Regulation; Industry Self-regulation; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Bribery; Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Government Legislation; Cost vs Benefits; Corporate Disclosure; Mining; Mining Industry; United States
Serafeim, George, Paul M. Healy, and Jérôme Lenhardt. "Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments." Harvard Business School Case 115-049, March 2015.
- 2014
- Chapter
Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations
By: Nien-he Hsieh and Florian Wettstein
A central question that arises from the perspective of global ethics is what standards ought to apply to the activities of multinational corporations (MNCs). This chapter surveys the contemporary theoretical literature on this question. The first section provides... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Corporation; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards
Hsieh, Nien-he, and Florian Wettstein. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations." Chap. 19 in The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics, edited by Darrel Moellendorf and Heather Widdows, 251–266. London: Routledge, 2014.