Goergen, Marc; Renneboog, Luc - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
shareholders is required to reach an absolute majority of voting rights. Even though the average firm has a dispersed ownership … example, has an important impact on the ownership structure. In about 4% of sample companies, corporate shareholders hold just … under 30 per cent of the shares. Second, institutional investors are the most important category of shareholders. However …