Corporate Strategy Ownership and Governance (BMSM04)
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Corporate Strategy Ownership and Governance (BMSM04)
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Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR)
Sources:
Santos, F. & Eisenhardt, K., 2005. Organizational Boundaries and Theories of Organization,
Organization Science, 16 (5) (you should be able to explain and apply alternative theories of (the)
firm (boundaries) to existing cases.
Ketokivi, M. & Mahoney, J.T. (2017) Transaction Cost...
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Summary Corporate ownership and
governance
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articles. It excludes information from the workshops and Financial Times articles.
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Summary Corporate ownership and governance................................................................1
Content session 1: corporations and the theory of firm (boundaries)..................................5
1. A legal perspective....................................................................................................................5
2. Five characteristics of PLCs.......................................................................................................5
2.1. Legal personality......................................................................................................................................6
2.2. Limited liability (in contract) Defensive asset partitioning.....................................................................6
2.3. Fully transferable shares..........................................................................................................................7
2.4. Delegated management & board structure............................................................................................7
2.5. Investor ownership..................................................................................................................................8
3. Why do firms exist? A multi-theoretical and causal approach..................................................8
4. A case in point: alternative theories of firm boundaries...........................................................9
5. Transaction cost theory..........................................................................................................10
Current Discussions, Debates, and Developments.......................................................................................12
A causal model of TCT...................................................................................................................................15
5.2. A causal model for any particular research question............................................................................15
Takeaways..................................................................................................................................16
6. Organizational boundaries and theories of organization........................................................17
Additional notes.........................................................................................................................20
Content session 2: Ownership of the firm.........................................................................22
1. Capitalism...............................................................................................................................22
2. Ownership: a functional bundle of rights................................................................................22
2.1. Characteristics of transactions in a business corporation:....................................................................23
2.2. Is ownership a force for the good mankind?.........................................................................................24
2.3. The tragedy of the anti-commons.........................................................................................................24
2.4. Ownership changes over the firm life cycle..........................................................................................25
3. Are you still the best owner of your assets?...........................................................................26
3.1. Theory of optimal ownership allocation................................................................................................28
3.2. The costs of market contracting............................................................................................................28
4. Cost of ownership...................................................................................................................29
5.1. Applying the Calculus.............................................................................................................................29
5.2. Benefits of ownership?..........................................................................................................................32
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, Additional notes.........................................................................................................................33
Content session 3: Corporate governance challenges and practices..................................35
1. Agency costs and agency theory.............................................................................................35
1.2. Two basic treatments............................................................................................................................37
2. Independence (literature).......................................................................................................37
3. Equity ownership (literature)..................................................................................................38
4. Corporate governance treatments in PLC...............................................................................40
4.1. Internal and external mechanisms........................................................................................................40
4.2. Four elements of effective CG...............................................................................................................40
4.3. Three internal governance mechanisms in research.............................................................................41
4.4. Legal system who owns the corporation..............................................................................................41
4.5. Market for corporate control................................................................................................................41
4.6. External auditing....................................................................................................................................42
4.7. Rating organizations..............................................................................................................................42
4.8. Stakeholder activism..............................................................................................................................42
4.9. Media.....................................................................................................................................................42
5. The board of directors............................................................................................................43
6. A causal model of agency theory............................................................................................43
7. Different functions of the board in firms.................................................................................44
Takeaways.....................................................................................................................................................44
Additional notes.........................................................................................................................45
Content module 4: The corporate governance challenges and practices of family-owned
firms................................................................................................................................47
1. Family firms: a characterization..............................................................................................47
1.2. Differences between family firms and non-family firms.......................................................................47
1.3. Prevalence and economic significance..................................................................................................48
1.4. Family firm resilience and survival........................................................................................................48
2. A life cycle perspective: three specific governance challenges................................................48
2.2. The ownership dilemma........................................................................................................................48
2.3. Minority shareholder expropriation......................................................................................................49
3. Control enhancing mechanisms..............................................................................................50
4. Family governance system......................................................................................................50
5. Six major components of family firm governance...................................................................51
5.1. Ownership structure..............................................................................................................................51
5.2. Control mechanisms..............................................................................................................................51
5.3. Board of directors..................................................................................................................................52
5.4. Executive compensation........................................................................................................................52
5.5. Dividend policy.......................................................................................................................................52
5. 6. Succession.............................................................................................................................................52
6. Agency problems in family firms.............................................................................................53
6.1. Type 1: Owner-manager agency problems...........................................................................................53
6.2. Type 2: Agency problems between controlling and minority owners..................................................53
6.3. Type 3: Agency problems between owners/managers and external creditors (voluntary and
involuntary)...................................................................................................................................................53
6.4. Type 4: multi-layered agency problems between the family (as a super principal) and family owners
and/or managers..........................................................................................................................................53
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, 7. Governance mechanisms in family firms.................................................................................54
7.1. Ownership concentration......................................................................................................................54
7.2. Boards of directors................................................................................................................................54
7.3. Executive compensation........................................................................................................................54
7.4. Debt........................................................................................................................................................54
7.5. The market for corporate control..........................................................................................................54
7.6. Dual-class unifications...........................................................................................................................54
7.7. Legal investor protection.......................................................................................................................55
8. Family firms: some alternative theories..................................................................................56
Takeaways.....................................................................................................................................................56
Additional notes.........................................................................................................................57
Content module 5: stakeholders in corporate governance................................................59
1. Background information.........................................................................................................59
1.1. Past: divergence and reconvergence.....................................................................................................59
1.2. Present: stakeholder turn in strategy....................................................................................................59
1.3. The future..............................................................................................................................................60
2. Stakeholder model of the firm................................................................................................61
2.1. Beneficiaries in audit contracts (third party agency problem)..............................................................61
3. Owners vs stakeholders..........................................................................................................62
3.1. Types of stakeholders............................................................................................................................62
3.2.Different types of challenges..................................................................................................................63
4. Strategic dependence.............................................................................................................63
5. Resource dependence theory.................................................................................................64
5.1. M&A.......................................................................................................................................................64
5.2. Joint ventures........................................................................................................................................64
5.3. BoDs.......................................................................................................................................................65
5.4. Political action........................................................................................................................................65
5.5. How to manage strategic dependence?................................................................................................66
Takeaways.....................................................................................................................................................67
Additional notes.........................................................................................................................68
Content module 6: Securing the firm’s societal license to operate....................................70
1. The societal license to operate (SLTO)....................................................................................70
2. SLTO components...................................................................................................................70
2.1. The legal license.....................................................................................................................................70
2.2. The social license...................................................................................................................................70
3. Strategic CSR...........................................................................................................................72
4. Integrated strategy, market and nonmarket components......................................................73
4.1. The market environment.......................................................................................................................73
4.2. The nonmarket environment.................................................................................................................73
4.3. A market strategy..................................................................................................................................73
4.4. A nonmarket strategy............................................................................................................................73
4.5. Nonmarket assets..................................................................................................................................73
5. A treatment against misconduct.............................................................................................74
5.1. Research: Do markets punish misconduct?..........................................................................................74
5.2. Corporate governance and misconduct................................................................................................75
6. Hans’ view on ownership and governance strategies.............................................................75
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