This article surveys the seventeen papers in this special issue of the Journal of Financial Economics, and related work. The major findings are: (1) patterns of stock ownership by insiders and outsiders can influence managerial behavior, corporate performance, and stockholder voting in election...

This presentation is based on our and our co-instructors' (Steve Zaffron, Jeri Echeverria and Kari Granger) work over the last eleven years developing our course entitled "Being A Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership". This presentation was given at the University of California,...

This paper is the sixth and seventh of eight course readings for our leadership course.The intention of this one semester leadership course is to leave participants actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By “natural self-expression” we...

Corporate America is being restructured at a rapid pace. This restructuring is being accomplished through a variety of transactions in the market for corporate control and through voluntary actions of managers as they rationalize and refocus the firms they lead. These events take the form of...

Corporate America is being restructured at a rapid pace. This restructuring is being accomplished through a variety of transactions in the market for corporate control and through voluntary actions of managers as they rationalize and refocus the firms they lead. These events take the form of...

This document contains a collection of 99 exam questions from the last 20 years of the Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations (CCMO) course. They are given to students at the end of the semester as a vehicle to aid their study for the final exam. These questions are a...

We analyze Total Quality Management (TQM) from an economic and organizational perspective. We find that TQM is a new organizing technology that is science-based, non-hierarchical, and non-market-oriented. It improves productivity by encouraging the use of science in decision-making and...

There is an impressive body of empirical evidence which indicates that successive price changes in individual common stocks are very nearly independent. Recent papers by Mandelbrot and Samuelson show rigorously that independence of successive price changes is consistent with an efficient market,...

In this article we review the implications of the Nader proposals for Taming the Giant Corporation and the related campaigns for economic and corporate democracy. These campaigns, if successful, would impose costs on one group for the benefit of others, reduce economic efficiency and wealth, and...