Numerosi studiosi di financial economics, management, diritto, organizzazione hanno esaminato la corporate governance e le caratteristiche di una buona governance sviluppando diverse teorie che riprendono vari aspetti contenuti nei Principi OCSE. Qui di seguito se ne fornisce una ricca bibliografia.
Aguilera Ruth V., Desender Kurt A., Kabbach-Castro L.R., «Perspectives on Comparative Corporate Governance», The Sage Handbook of Corporate Governance, New York, Sage, 2012.
Aguilera Ruth V., Filatotchev I., Gospel H., Jackson G., «An Organizational Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance: Costs, Contingencies, and Complementarities», Organization Science, 19 (3), maggio-giugno 2008, pp 475-492.
Aguinis H., Glavas A., «What We Know and Don't Know About Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review and Research Agenda», Journal of management 38 (4), 2012, pp. 932-968.
Berle Adolf A., Means Gardiner C., The Modern Corporation and Private Property, New York, Macmillan, 1932.
Boyle G., Grace-Webb E., «Sarbanes-Oxley and Its Aftermath: A Review of the Evidence», New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation, Victoria University of Wellington, 2007.
Brown J.R. Jr, «Criticizing the Critics: Sarbanes Oxley and Quack Corporate Governance», Marquette Law Review, 90, 2006, p. 309.
Dalton D., Hitt Michael A., Certo T., «The Fundamental Agency Problem and Its Mitigation: Independence, Equity, and the Market for Corporate Control», The Academy of Management Annals, 1 (1), 2007, pp. 1-64.
Easterbrook Frank H., «The Race for the Bottom in Corporate Governance», Virginia Law Review, 95 (4), 2009, pp. 685-706.
Enriques L., Zetzsche D., «Quack Corporate Governance, Round III? Bank Board Regulation Under the New European Capital Requirement Directive», Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 16 (1), 2015, pp. 211-244.
Fama Eugene F., Jensen Michael C., «Separation of Ownership and Control», The Journal of Law & Economics, 26 (2), 1983, pp. 301-325.
Filatotchev I., «Taking Stock of Corporate Governance Research While Looking to the Future», Corporate Governance: An International Review, 17 (3), 2009, pp. 257-265.
Forbes Daniel P., Milliken Frances J., «Cognition and Corporate Governance: Understanding Boards of Directors as Strategic Decision-Making Groups», Academy of Management Review, 24 (3), 1999, pp. 489-505.
Freeman R. Edward, Strategic management: A stakeholder approach, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Friedman M., «The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits», The New York Times Magazine, 13 settembre 1970.
Hambrick Donald C., Werder Axel V., Zajac Edward J., «New directions in corporate governance research», Organization Science, 19 (3), 2008, pp. 381-385.
Huse M., Boards, Governance and Value Creation, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Jensen Michael C., Meckling William H., «Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure», Journal of financial economics, 3 (4), 1976, pp. 305-360.
Minichilli A., Zattoni A., Nielsen S., Huse M., «Board task performance: An exploration of micro‐and macro‐level determinants of board effectiveness», Journal of Organizational Behavior, 33 (2), 2012, pp. 193-215.
Misangyi Vilmos F., Acharya Abhijith G., «Substitutes or Complements? A Configurational Examination of Corporate Governance Mechanisms», Academy of Management Journal, 57 (6), 2014, pp. 1681-1705.
Rediker Kenneth J., Seth A., «Boards of directors and substitution effects of alternative governance mechanisms», Strategic Management Journal, 16 (2), 1995, pp. 85-99.
Romano R., «Is regulatory competition a problem or irrelevant for corporate governance?», Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 21 (2), 2005, pp. 212-231.
Shleifer A., Vishny Robert W., «A Survey of Corporate Governance», The Journal of Finance, 52 (2), 1997, pp. 737-783.
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