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Hart, Oliver - 2009

The existing literature on firms, based on incomplete contracts and property rights, emphasizes that the ownership of assets - and thereby firm boundaries - is determined in such a way as to encourage relationship-specific investments by the appropriate parties. It is generally accepted that...

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How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

Gompers, Paul A. - 2016

organization; and relationships with limited partners. In selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than …

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Organizational Decision Making Under Uncertainty Shocks

Ballesteros, Luis - 2018

markets, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and financial crises—as a problem of risk management. This is …

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply … reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We … find large cross-country differences in the adoption of management practices, with the US having the highest size …

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Executives' "Off-the-Job" Behavior, Corporate Culture, and Financial Reporting Risk

Davidson, Robert H. - 2012

We examine how executives' behavior outside the workplace, as measured by their ownership of luxury goods (low "frugality") and prior legal infractions, is related to financial reporting risk. We predict and find that CEOs and CFOs with a legal record are more likely to perpetrate fraud. In...

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Foreign Corporations and the Culture of Transparency : Evidence from Russian Administrative Data

Braguinsky, Serguey - 2012

Foreign-owned firms from advanced countries carry the culture of transparency in business transactions that is orthogonal to the culture of hiding and insider dealing in many developing economies and economies in transition. In this paper, we document this using administrative data on reported...

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Corporate Culture : Evidence from the Field

Graham, John R. - 2017

Does corporate culture matter? Can differences in corporate culture explain why similar firms diverge with one succeeding and the other failing? To answer these questions, we use a novel survey and interview-based analysis of 1,348 North American firms. Over half of senior executives believe...

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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...

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Social Progress and Corporate Culture

Gorton, Gary B. - 2019

Social progress through improved treatment of minority groups (the embrace of anti-racist and anti-sexist norms, for example) may or may not spread to corporate cultures through competition. Sometimes the market fails to adapt on its own and government must pass legislation to secure changes in...

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Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?

Dyck, I. J. Alexander - 2010

What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one...

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