What makes firms perform well?

Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

1976 • 62,465 citations

Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations

1991 • 30,298 citations

The Competitive Advantage of Nations

1991 • 18,671 citations

Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers

1986 • 17,982 citations

Management ownership and market valuation

1988 • 7,109 citations

Moral Hazard in Teams

1982 • 4,935 citations

Additional evidence on equity ownership and corporate value

1990 • 4,523 citations

Competition and Corporate Performance

1996 • 2,455 citations

The Market Mechanism as an Incentive Scheme

1983 • 1,498 citations

Takeovers: Their Causes and Consequences

1988 • 1,346 citations

Leverage, investment, and firm growth

1996 • 1,289 citations

Managerial Incentives and Product Market Competition

1997 • 1,147 citations

INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY, AND MARKET STRUCTURE

1990 • 618 citations

Productivity, imperfect competition and trade reform

1994 • 582 citations

The effects of leveraged buyouts on productivity and related aspects of firm behavior

1990 • 536 citations

The competitive advantage of nations

1991 • 523 citations

Product-Market Competition and Managerial Slack

1988 • 516 citations

Trade liberalization, market discipline and productivity growth: new evidence from India

1998 • 512 citations

Dynamic Count Data Models of Technological Innovation

1995 • 483 citations

Ownership Structure, Control Type Classifications and the Performance of Large British Companies

1991 • 460 citations

The Effects of Competition on Executive Behavior

1992 • 345 citations

Information, Competition, and Markets

1983 • 332 citations

OWNERSHIP, CONTROL, FINANCIAL STRUCTURE AND THE PERFORMANCE OF FIRMS

1994 • 288 citations

The Effect of Shareholding Dispersion on the Degree of Control in British Companies: Theory and Measurement

1983 • 272 citations

Efficiency in U.S. manufacturing industries

1990 • 254 citations

Efficiency and Competition in the Airline Industry

1983 • 226 citations

Efficiency in Manufacturing and the Need for Global Competition

1995 • 208 citations

Industrial efficiency in six nations

1993 • 167 citations

Does Import Competition Force Efficient Production?

1994 • 136 citations

Productivity growth in U.K. companies, 1975–1986

1992 • 135 citations

Technical Inefficiency in Manufacturing Industries

1991 • 129 citations

Economic Policy in Theory and Practice

1987 • 97 citations

A Schumpeterian Perspective on Growth and Competition

1998 • 90 citations

Corporate Governance and Market Structure

1987 • 87 citations

Towards an Explanation of the Productivity Slowdown: An Acceleration-Deceleration Hypothesis

1983 • 43 citations

Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications

1997 • 38 citations

Performance Comparisons and Dynamic Incentives

1995 • 10 citations

Managerial Incentives and Product Market Competition

1996 • 9 citations

Leverage, Investment, and Firm Growth

1995 • 5 citations

The effect of managerial ownership of shares and voting concentration on performance

1994 • 5 citations