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Amir N. Licht

Amir N. Licht

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Law

D-Index
22
Citations
4103
World Ranking
417
National Ranking
7

Overview

Amir N. Licht is affiliated with Reichman University in Israel and works extensively in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research covers multiple subfields, including Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Law, Strategy and Management, as well as Political Science and International Relations.

The research topics addressed by Licht span Corporate Insolvency and Governance, Legal principles and applications, Corporate Law and Human Rights, Corporate Finance and Governance, Legal Studies and Reforms, Corporate Governance and Law, and Family Business Performance and Succession.

Licht has published numerous papers, primarily in the SSRN Electronic Journal, with some contributions in other venues such as Management Science. Notable papers authored or co-authored by Licht include:

  • My Creditor's Keeper: Escalation of Commitment and Custodial Fiduciary Duties in the Vicinity of Insolvency (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Varieties of Shareholderism: Three Views of the Corporate Purpose Cathedral (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • צימצום שלא כפשוטו: אחריות נושאי משרה בחברה בסמיכות לחדלות פירעון <br>Uneasy Diminishing: Corporate Officer Liability in the Vicinity of Insolvency (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • שלמוני אמונאי ישראל: תביעות שוחד ומגמות בדיני אמונאות ובדיני עשיית עושר ולא במשפט Israel Fiduciary Bribes: Bribery Claims and Trends in Fiduciary Law and Unjust Enrichment Law (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Shareholderism around the World: Corporate Purpose, Culture, and Law (2025, SSRN Electronic Journal, co-authored with Renée B. Adams)

Co-authorship collaboration includes working with Renée B. Adams on at least two publications.

The main publication venues where Licht's work appears are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Management Science

The distribution of research across subfields shows an emphasis on accounting and organizational behavior topics alongside law and political science. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in the diverse themes present in the published literature.

Best Publications

  • Culture rules: The foundations of the rule of law and other norms of governance

    Amir N. Licht;Chanan Goldschmidt;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • CROSS-LISTING AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: BONDING OR AVOIDING?

    Amir N. Licht

  • Culture, Law, and Corporate Governance

    Amir N. Licht;Chanan Goldschmidt;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Shareholders and stakeholders: How do directors decide?

    Renée B. Adams;Amir N. Licht;Lilach Sagiv

  • Egalitarianism and international investment

    Jordan I. Siegel;Amir N. Licht;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Cross-Listing and Corporate Governance: Bonding or Avoiding?

    Amir N. Licht

  • The Maximands of Corporate Governance: A Theory of Values and Cognitive Style

    Amir N. Licht

  • The Mother of All Path Dependencies: Toward a Cross-Cultural Theory of Corporate Governance Systems

    Amir N. Licht

  • Legal Plug-Ins: Cultural Distance, Cross-Listing, and Corporate Governance Reform

    Amir N. Licht

  • Games Commissions Play: 2x2 Games of International Securities Regulation

    Amir N. Licht

  • Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance

    Amir N. Licht;Chanan Goldschmidt;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Eminent Domain, Inc.

    Amnon Lehavi;Amir N. Licht

  • Social Norms and the Law: Why Peoples Obey the Law

    Amir N. Licht

  • Managerial Opportunism and Foreign Listing: Some Direct Evidence

    Amir N. Licht

  • Cross-Listing and Corporate Governance: Bonding or Avoiding?

    Amir N. Licht

  • Culture, Law, and Corporate Governance

    Amir N. Licht;Chanan Goldschmidt;Shalom H. Schwartz;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • STOCK MARKET INTEGRATION IN EUROPE

    Amir N. Licht

  • Shareholders and Stakeholders: How Do Directors Decide?

    Renee B. Adams;Amir N. Licht;Lilach Sagiv

  • What makes the bonding stick? A natural experiment testing the legal bonding hypothesis

    Amir N. Licht;Christopher Poliquin;Jordan I. Siegel;Xi Li

  • Egalitarianism and International Investment

    Jordan I. Siegel;Amir N. Licht;Shalom H. Schwartz;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Regulatory Arbitrage for Real: International Securities Regulation in a World of Interacting Securities Markets

    Amir Licht

  • What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Involving the U.S. Supreme Court and Cross-Listed Firms

    Amir N. Licht;Christopher Poliquin;Jordan I. Siegel;Xi Li

  • Genie in a Bottle? Assessing Managerial Opportunism in International Securities Transactions

    Amir N. Licht

  • Culture, Law, and Finance: Cultural Dimensions of Corporate Governance Laws

    Amir N. Licht;Chanan Goldschmidt;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Accountability and Corporate Governance

    Amir N. Licht

  • Culture and Law in Corporate Governance

    Amir N. Licht

  • Culture, Law, and Finance: Cultural Dimensions of Corporate Governance Laws - eScholarship

    Amir N. Licht;Chanan Goldschmidt;Shalom H. Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lilach Sagiv
Lilach Sagiv Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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