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Agency Theory As Prophecy: How Boards, Analysts, And Fund Managers Perform Their Roles, Jiwook Jung, Frank Dobbin
Agency Theory As Prophecy: How Boards, Analysts, And Fund Managers Perform Their Roles, Jiwook Jung, Frank Dobbin
Seattle University Law Review
In 1976, Michael Jensen and William Meckling published a paper reintroducing agency theory that explained how the modern corporation is structured to serve dispersed shareholders. They purported to describe the world as it exists but, in fact, they described a utopia, and their piece was read as a blueprint for that utopia. We take a page from the sociology of knowledge to argue that, in the modern world, economic theories function as prescriptions for behavior as much as they function as descriptions. Economists and management theorists often act as prophets rather than scientists, describing the world not as it is, …
The Controlling Persons Provisions: Conduits Of Secondary Liability Under Federal Securities Law, Kenneth I. Levin
The Controlling Persons Provisions: Conduits Of Secondary Liability Under Federal Securities Law, Kenneth I. Levin
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Business Associations -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Kenneth L. Roberts
Business Associations -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Kenneth L. Roberts
Vanderbilt Law Review
I. CASES
A. Disregard of Corporate Entity
B. Action in Corporate Name After Revocation of Charter
C. Effect of Merger
1. Privilege Tax
2. Statute of Limitations
D. Judicial Intervention in Internal Corporate Affairs
E. Disregard of Fictitious Corporate Records
F. Criminal Liability of Corporation for Acts of Agents
G. Corporate Venue Under Federal Anti-Trust Laws
II. STATUTES
A. Unincorporated Associations Treated as Corporations
B. Amendments to Securities Law
C. Massachusetts Trust Act
D. Industrial Development Corporation "Projects"
E. Amendments Relating to General Welfare Corporations
F. Miscellany
Principal And Agent--Accounting For Personal Profits Made By Agent Withholding Information From Principal, August W. Petroplus
Principal And Agent--Accounting For Personal Profits Made By Agent Withholding Information From Principal, August W. Petroplus
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.