Ownership and operating performance of companies that go public

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

Management, Business Economics, Corporate Governance +16

A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity

Halbert White · Econometrica · 1980 · 26.1K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Econometrics +11

Management ownership and market valuation

Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny · Journal of Financial Economics · 1988 · 7.1K citations · Full text

Business, Business Economics, Corporate Finance +11

Outside directors and CEO turnover

Michael S. Weisbach · Journal of Financial Economics · 1988 · 4.4K citations

Management, Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior +12

The Long‐Run Performance of initial Public Offerings

Jay R. Ritter · The Journal of Finance · 1991 · 3.4K citations · Full text

Business, Finance, Financial Management +11