The Modern Firm, Corporate Governance and Investment

Edited by Per-Olof Bjuggren () and Dennis C. Mueller

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Abstract: This book explores the revolutionary development of the theory of the firm over the past 35 years. Despite rapid progress in the field, new developments in the microeconomic and industrial organization literature have been relatively scant. This book attempts to redress the balance by providing a comprehensive overview of the theory of the firm before moving on to examine firms and the organization of their economic activities. The contributors also investigate the impact of ownership structure and board composition on firm performance and study how the institutional framework of an economy affects investment decisions.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781848442252
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: The Modern Firm, Corporate Governance and Investment

Per-Olof Bjuggren and Dennis C. Mueller

Ch 2 Opening the Black Box of Firm and Market Organization: Antitrust

Oliver Williamson

Ch 3 The Corporation: An Economic Enigma

Dennis C. Mueller

Ch 4 A Contractual Perspective of the Firm with an Application to the Maritime Industry

Per-Olof Bjuggren and Johanna Palmberg

Ch 5 The Use of Managerial Authority in the Knowledge Economy

Kirsten Foss

Ch 6 Competence and Learning in the Experimentally Organized Economy

Gunnar Eliasson and Åsa Eliasson

Ch 7 Corporate Governance and Investments in Scandinavia – Ownership Concentration and Dual-Class Equity Structure

Johan Eklund

Ch 8 The Cost of Legal Uncertainty: The Impact of Insecure Property Rights on Cost of Capital

Per-Olof Bjuggren and Johan Eklund

Ch 9 The Stock Market, the Market for Corporate Control and the Theory of the Firm: Legal and Economic Perspectives and Implications for Public Policy

Simon Deakin and Ajit Singh

Ch 10 Institutional Ownership and Dividends

Daniel Wiberg

Ch 11 Contracting Around Ownership: Shareholder Agreements in France

Camille Madelon and Steen Thomsen

Ch 12 Board Governance of Family Firms and Business Groups with a Unique Regional Dataset

Lluis Bru and Rafel Crespí

Ch 13 Better Firm Performance with Employees on the Board?

Reidar Strøm

Ch 14 The Determinants of German Corporate Governance Ratings

Wolfgang Drobetz, Klaus Gugler and Simone Hirschvogl

Ch 15 Top Management, Education and Networking

Mogens Dilling-Hansen, Erik Madsen and Valdemar Smith

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