Publications

04 Jun 2012
News

Applying Business Theories to Your Life

22 Sep 2021
Keynote Speech

Getting Serious About Sustainability: Corporate Governance for a New Era

By: Lynn S. Paine

Research Summary

Family Business Governance

Davis's other current work explores family, business, and ownership governance in the family business system. A book on this topic is in process. Included in this body of work is a large-scale survey project on corporate governance of Brazilian family companies and... View Details

2014
Working Paper

Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries?

By: Andrea Hugill and Jordan Siegel

Scholars of corporate governance have debated the relative importance of country and firm characteristics in understanding corporate governance variation across emerging economies. Using panel data and a number of model specifications, we shed new light on this debate.... View Details

Keywords: Quality; Corporate Governance; Developing Countries and Economies

SSRN

07 Feb 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries?

Keywords: by Andrea Hugill & Jordan Siegel

Research Summary

Institutions, Markets and Growth: A Study of Comparative Corporate Governance

Co-authored with Kose John View Details

November 2014
Article

The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim

We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993—termed as High Sustainability... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Accountability; Reporting; Corporate Governance; Investor Clientele; Investor Communication; Stock Market; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Performance; United States

2004
Class Lecture

Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Scandals, Reforms, and the Future

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States

Purchase

2004
Chapter

The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance

By: Gerald F. Davis and Christopher Marquis

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry

16 Nov 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Governing Misvalued Firms

Keywords: by Dalida Kadyrzhanova & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

2003
Article

The Influence of Culture and Corporate Governance on the Characteristics that Distinguish Superior Analysts

By: Michael B. Clement, Lynn Rees and Edward Swanson

We identify characteristics of financial analysts that have been shown to be associated with relative forecast accuracy in the United States and examine these characteristics within 10 countries. We find that relative forecast accuracy is influenced by years of... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation

Purchase

Fall 2020
Article

Executives' Legal Records and the Deterrent Effect of Corporate Governance

By: Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey and Abbie Smith

Research Summary

Governance of Interorganizational Exchange

By: Ranjay Gulati

In a series of papers, I examine the antecedents and consequences of governance choices in exchange relations. Using data from the automotive industry, a coauthor and I have examined the dynamics associated with the social and contractual structure of sourcing... View Details

2014
Working Paper

Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis, Luc Renneboog and Sunny Li Sun

We argue that the language spoken by corporate decision makers influences their firms' social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future.... View Details

Keywords: Language; Future-Time-Reference; Categories; Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Communication; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

SSRN

March 2014
Module Note

Empty Voting: Corporate Governance and Control in the Age of Derivatives

By: Lucy White

Purchase

2001
Working Paper

The Role of Corporate Boards in Improving Governance through Effective Disclosure

By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu

12 May 2017
Panel Discussion

Impact of Economics of Mutuality on Corporate Governance and Values

By: Lynn S. Paine

March 2013
Article

Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities

By: Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis

Geographic communities have been shown to affect organizations through their enduring features, but less attention has been given to communities as sites of human-made and natural events that occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop a... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Communities; Punctuated Equilibrium; Corporate Social Responsibility; Institutional Theory; Natural Disasters; Situation or Environment; Balance and Stability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States

October 2011
Article

Concentrating on Governance

By: Dalida Kadyrzhanova and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model that integrates agency costs and bargaining benefits of management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value.... View Details

Keywords: Market Participation; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations