How to find serious academic journal articles?

How To Do It:

Decide a subject you are interested in. If you for example are interested in corporate governance in France, find an article on that, or women on corporate boards, etc. Then find a serious research article from one of these academic sources by searching for a paper that is of interest to you and be sure you find the paper accessible enough to understand the problem the person was studying, how they reached their conclusion, and the conclusion;

Use these sources to find articles:

2. Social Science Research Network working papers (see www.ssrn.com);

4. Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University under Publications, Recorded and Past Vents, or News articles (http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/rcfcg/ );

5. Yale University Millstein Center on Corporate Governance under Teaching and Research part on working papers, News and Events, Networks and Resources (http://millstein.som.yale.edu/ );

6. Professor Lucien Bebchuk of Harvard Law School research materials (http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/bebchuk/ );

7. Carl Icahn’s Web Site (http://www.icahnreport.com/ ) OR carlicahn.com

8. ISS Shareholder Services (http://www.issgovernance.com/ );

9. Corporate Governance Program of the AFL-CIO called Capital Stewardship Program (http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/capital/proxyvoting.cfm );

10. Governance Center at the Conference Board (http://www.conference-board.org/governance/ );

11. Corporate Governance Group at the Business Roundtable (http://businessroundtable.org/committees/corporate-leadership/ );

12. Change To Win Corporate Governance Investment Group (http://ctwinvestmentgroup.com/ );

13. Council of Institutional Investors (http://www.cii.org/ );

14. American Corporate Governance Institute (http://amcorpgov.com/ );

15. New York Stock Exchange’s Final Corporate Governance Rules after the President Bush reforms at http://www.nyse.com/pdfs/finalcorpgovrules.pdf ;

16. NASDAQ’s summary of the corporate governance reforms after the President Bush reforms (http://www.nasdaq.com/about/CorpGovSummary.pdf ) ;

17. SEC ( www.sec.org especially under the SEC Newsroom where you can search for papers, speeches and research or use their search engine http://www.sec.gov/search/search.htm ) or the SEC’s Rule on Shreholder Nominations that was successfully challenged in court last summer: http://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2010/33-9136.pdf ;

18. Request for Rulemaking by a private group of law professors for special disclosure on corporate political contributions (http://www.sec.gov/rules/petitions/2011/petn4-637.pdf ) ;

19. Women on Corporate Boards group (http://www.womencorporatedirectors.com/ );

20. Google Scholar searching for “corporate governance” and your topic area.