Business Organizations: References
Gail M. Pesyna, Program Director
Individuals interested in the study of Business Organizations may want to refer to the following Sloan-supported resources.
A major grant that started the Foundation's academic program in this area was awarded in 1994 to Columbia University School of Law, the
Sloan Project on Corporate Governance,
directed by Mark Roe. Much, though not all of the work under this successful and widely noticed program compares elements of U.S. corporate
governance to those in other countries. Although many of the papers are available on the project's website or were published individually in academic
journals, the following four symposium volumes are also available:
- Comparative Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and Emerging Research, K.J. Hopt, H. Kanda,
M.J. Roe, E. Wymeersch and S. Prigge, Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Corporate Governance Today: The Sloan Project on Corporate Governance at Columbia Law
School, May 1998. M.J. Roe, ed. Limited availability from Columbia University Law School.
- Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 1998, No. 1, Special Symposium Issue.
- Employees and Corporate Governance, M.M. Blair and M.J. Roe, eds., Brookings Institution Press, 1999.
The Demography of Corporations and Industries by Glenn Carroll and Michael Hannan is the first book to present the demographic approach to studying business organizations in their entirety. Published in 2000 by Princeton University Press, it examines the theory, models, methods and data used in corporate demographic research. The book explores the processes by which corporate populations change over time, including organizational founding, growth, decline, structural transformation, and mortality.
A research network on Redefining the Corporation has been established and has sponsored conferences, research and publications. Its website contains a useful set of papers and a large bibliography. A Sloan-supported program at the Brookings Institution, centered on the increasing importance of firm-specific human capital to wealth creation, has also been very active and has produced books and monographs that may be obtained directly from Brookings.
A 1999 grant to the Social Science Research Council supports dissertation research fellowships, workshops and conferences through its program on The Corporation as a Social Institution. Information about these fellowships is available on SSRC's website. The Sloan Project on Business Institutions, recently established at Georgetown University Law Center, is led by Professors Lynn Stout and Margaret Blair. It supports visiting professorships as well as workshops and conferences and has published a Symposium Issue on Team Production in Business Organizations, in The Journal of Corporation Law (Vol. 24, No. 4, Summer 1999)