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Ownership Structure

Ownership Structure is a foundational governance construct in organizational studies that denotes the distribution and concentration of equity claims and control rights among shareholders within a firm, distinguishing it from related mechanisms by specifying the legal and economic allocation of ownership that shapes incentive, accountability, and decision-making dynamics.

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

Michael C. Jensen, William H. Meckling · Journal of Financial Economics · 1976 · 70.7K citations

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Separation of Ownership and Control

Eugene F. Fama, Michael C. Jensen · The Journal of Law and Economics · 1983 · 19.1K citations

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Law and Finance

Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny · Journal of Political Economy · 1998 · 18.1K citations

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A Survey of Corporate Governance

Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny · The Journal of Finance · 1997 · 16.2K citations · Full text

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Corporate Ownership Around the World

Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer · The Journal of Finance · 1999 · 10.7K citations · Full text

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  1. PJ
    Pornsit Jiraporn

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    40 publications · 2.2K citations

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  2. IF
    Igor Filatotchev

    City, University of London, United Kingdom

    35 publications · 4K citations

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  3. AS
    Andrei Shleifer

    Harvard University, United States

    28 publications · 87.5K citations

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  4. OG
    Omrane Guedhami

    University of South Carolina, United States

    30 publications · 2.8K citations

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  5. MW
    Mike Wright

    University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

    30 publications · 2.6K citations

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Institutions

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  1. European Corporate Governance Institute

    Brussels, Belgium

    82 h-index

    406 publications

    41.7K citations

  2. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    77 h-index

    280 publications

    107.5K citations

  3. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    59 h-index

    126 publications

    44K citations

  4. New York University

    New York, United States

    51 h-index

    123 publications

    17.4K citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    51 h-index

    93 publications

    95.2K citations

  6. City University of Hong Kong

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    51 h-index

    131 publications

    15.5K citations

  7. Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    50 h-index

    112 publications

    39.8K citations

  8. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    47 h-index

    104 publications

    79.9K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 1.3K publications · 82.6K citations

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  2. Journal of Financial Economics

    135 publications · 174.3K citations

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  3. The Journal of Finance

    157 publications · 94.9K citations

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  4. Journal of Corporate Finance

    193 publications · 33.7K citations

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  5. Corporate Governance An International Review

    231 publications · 21.9K citations

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