What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
Shareholder, Accounting, Incentive, Corporate governance and Control are his primary areas of study.
His Shareholder research is under the purview of Finance.
His Accounting research includes elements of Institutional investor, Management control system, Pension and Voting.
James A. Brickley has researched Incentive in several fields, including Market structure, Market power, Managerial economics and Outsourcing.
The Corporate governance study combines topics in areas such as Game theory, Service and Organizational architecture.
The various areas that James A. Brickley examines in his Control study include CONTEST and Actuarial science.
His most cited work include:
- Ownership structure and voting on antitakeover amendments (1148 citations)
- Leadership structure: Separating the CEO and Chairman of the Board (1126 citations)
- The Market for Corporate Control: The Empirical Evidence Since 1980 (995 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His primary areas of study are Incentive, Accounting, Finance, Shareholder and Franchise.
His Incentive research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Malpractice, Marketing and Principal–agent problem.
The concepts of his Accounting study are interwoven with issues in Control, Agency cost and Corporate governance.
His research on Finance often connects related topics like Financial system.
While the research belongs to areas of Shareholder, he spends his time largely on the problem of Dividend, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Financial economics.
His Franchise research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Microeconomics, Investment and State.
He most often published in these fields:
- Incentive (28.41%)
- Accounting (26.14%)
- Finance (21.59%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2005-2020)?
- Accounting (26.14%)
- Nursing homes (5.68%)
- Corporate governance (13.64%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His primary areas of investigation include Accounting, Nursing homes, Corporate governance, Quality and Marketing.
His research integrates issues of Asset, Bankruptcy and Damages in his study of Accounting.
His research in Corporate governance intersects with topics in Competition, Financial accounting and Opportunity cost.
His Competition research integrates issues from Representation, Insider and Actuarial science.
James A. Brickley interconnects Agency cost and Best practice in the investigation of issues within Financial accounting.
His work deals with themes such as Managerial turnover and Senior management, which intersect with Quality.
Between 2005 and 2020, his most popular works were:
- Corporate governance myths: Comments on Armstrong, Guay, and Weber (135 citations)
- Contract Duration: Evidence from Franchising* (69 citations)
- Board composition and nonprofit conduct: Evidence from hospitals (41 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
His scientific interests lie mostly in Accounting, Corporate governance, Agency cost, Best practice and Financial accounting.
He combines subjects such as Insider and Actuarial science with his study of Accounting.
His Corporate governance research incorporates themes from Test, Competition and Representation.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Index, Stakeholder and Law and economics.
He merges many fields, such as Best practice and Procedure, in his writings.
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