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Corporate Governance and Law

Corporate Governance and Law is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers revolves around the regulatory competition and harmonization efforts in European company law, focusing on topics such as corporate mobility, freedom of establishment, cross-border mergers, legal transplants, company governance, directive harmonization, the role of SE (Societas Europaea), and corporate law arbitrage.

  • European Company Law
  • Regulatory Competition
  • Corporate Mobility
  • Freedom of Establishment
  • Cross-border Mergers
  • Legal Transplants
  • Company Governance
  • Directive Harmonization
  • SE (Societas Europaea)
  • Corporate Law Arbitrage
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Corporate Governance and Law

Which countries lead Corporate Governance and Law research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (511 and 370 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 511 works
  2. 2 United States 370 works
  3. 3 France 264 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 170 works
  5. 5 China 165 works
  6. 6 Austria 135 works
  7. 7 Italy 119 works
  8. 8 Russia 113 works
  9. 9 Poland 99 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 87 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Germany: 25.1%United States: 18.2%France: 13.0%United Kingdom: 8.3%6 others listed: 35.3%25%largest
Germany511 · 25.1%United States370 · 18.2%France264 · 13.0%United Kingdom170 · 8.3%6 others listed718 · 35.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Corporate Governance and Law research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Corporate Governance and Law research, followed by Bergmann und Partner Rechtsanwälte and Université de Lyon.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 51 works
  2. 2 Bergmann und Partner RechtsanwälteGermany 32 works
  3. 3 Université de LyonFrance 30 works
  4. 4 Austrian Foundry Research InstituteAustria 28 works
  5. 5 Max Planck SocietyGermany 28 works
  6. 6 Institute of Management Technology, Dubai 20 works
  7. 7 University of ViennaAustria 19 works
  8. 8 Vienna University of Economics and BusinessAustria 18 works
  9. 9 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 18 works
  10. 10 Université de MontpellierFrance 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Corporate Governance and Law?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Corporate Governance and Law include Andrei Shleifer, Michael C. Jensen and David F. Larcker.

  1. 1 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  2. 2 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  3. 3 David F. Larcker United States 197k citations
  4. 4 Michael D Brauer Canada 187k citations
  5. 5 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  6. 6 Jens Juul Holst Denmark 163k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Corporate Governance and Law?

The most cited paper in Corporate Governance and Law is "The Core Competence of the Corporation" (C. K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel, 2006), with 11,496 citations. Next come "The ultimate ownership of Western European corporations" (3,662) and "Getting to YES. Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" (2,416).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Core Competence of the Corporation C. K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel Book chapter 8 Feb 2006 11,496
2 The ultimate ownership of Western European corporations Mara Faccio, Larry H.P. Lang · Journal of Financial Economics 26 Aug 2002 3,662
3 Getting to YES. Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In Alan T. Marty · Critical Care Medicine Oct 1983 2,416
4 Management. Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. D. C. Hague, P. Drucker · The Economic Journal Mar 1975 1,918
5 Managing across Borders: The Transnational Solution Stephen Tallman · Journal of International Business Studies Mar 1990 1,595
All 96 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Corporate Governance and Law research done?

The largest centres of Corporate Governance and Law research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), London (United Kingdom), Vienna (Austria) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hamm and Leoben.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 71 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 64 works
  3. 3 ViennaAustria 63 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 50 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 45 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 40 works
  7. 7 BerlinGermany 39 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 34 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 33 works
  10. 10 HammGermany 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HammDE · 32.1 works236×
  2. LeobenAT · 28.1 works90×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Corporate Governance and Law than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Corporate Governance and Law?

Among universities, judged by research, Florida Atlantic University, University of Edinburgh and Copenhagen Business School score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 11.93%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Edinbu…Florida Atlantic Uni…Copenhagen Business …Vienna University of…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Florida Atlantic UniversityUnited States 64.618.3%30.7×15 -
2University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 63.028.2%3.8×9 +124.7%
3Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 59.618.2%32.4×14 -21.8%
4Vienna University of Economics and BusinessAustria 57.72.7%89.0×18 +30.6%
5King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 57.013.7%6.6×15 -23.4%
6University of ViennaAustria 56.22.0%14.6×20 +36.2%
7Philipps University of MarburgGermany 56.07.5%17.1×12 +34.0%
8Heidelberg UniversityGermany 55.55.1%7.9×16 +119.6%
9Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 54.56.0%24.5×10 +30.6%
10University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 53.117.6%4.8×8 +33.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Corporate Governance and Law, country by country

Is Corporate Governance and Law research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Corporate Governance and Law as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Corporate Governance and Law0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Corporate Governance and Law over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Corporate Governance and Law10.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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