Marc van Essen (m.vanessen@uu.nl) is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Utrecht School of Economics at Utrecht University. He received his PhD from Rotterdam School of Management (cum laude), Erasmus University. His research interests include comparative corporate governance, family business, and meta-analytic research methods. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Academy of Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management and Organizational Science. He is a member of the Academy of Management, American Law and Economics Association, and Meta-Analysis of Economics Research (MAER) Network.
Articles
An institution-based view of executive compensation: A multilevel meta-analytic test. (with Pursey P. M. A. R Heugens, Jordan Otten, and J. (Hans) van Oosterhout), Journal of International Business Studies (2012)
We offer a multilevel meta-analytic study of the firm performance—executive compensation relationship, comprising prior tests...
Assessing managerial power theory: A meta-analytic approach to understanding the determinants of CEO compensation (with Jordan Otten and Edward J. Carberry), Journal of Management (2012)
Although studies about the determinants of CEO compensation are ubiquitous, the balance of evidence for...
Competition and cooperation in corporate governance: The effects of labor institutions on blockholder effectiveness in 23 European countries. (with J. (Hans) van oosterhout and Pursey P. M. A. R Heugens), Organizational Science (2012)
We provide an analysis of the costs and benefits of blockholding in Europe, where it...
Corporate boards and the performance of Asian firms: A meta-analysis (with J. Hans van Oosterhout and Michael Carney), Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2012)
The prevalence of ownership concentration in Asian firms presents a challenge to the influential agency...
Business Group Affiliation, Performance, Context, and Strategy: A Meta-Analysis. (with Michael Carney, Eric R. Gedajlovic, Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens, and J. (Hans) van Oosterhout), Academy of Management Journal (2011)
Research on business groups – legally independent firms tied together in a variety of formal...
Contributions to Books
The Role of Financial Markets to Induce Corporate Responsibility. (with Peter-Jan Engelen), Responsible Investment in Times of Turmoil (2010)
Other
PhD thesis An Institution-Based View of Ownership (2011)
The past two decades have witnessed an exponential growth of research on corporate governance around...