The paper presents the results of two surveys on how ownership structure and corporate governance affect corporate performance. The analyses focus on the question whether the differences among the performances of firms can be attributed to the various types of ownership structures and corporate...

The pressures to accommodate to the global standards of corporate governance (CG) for Japanese public companies had grown strong since the mid-1990s. A series of legal reforms has led to the formal imitation of the market oriented Anglo-American model which, however, was not accompanied by the...

The pressures to accommodate to the global standards of corporate governance (CG) for Japanese public companies had grown strong since the mid-1990s. A series of legal reforms has led to the formal imitation of the market oriented Anglo-American model which, however, was not accompanied by the...

The paper presents the results of two surveys on how ownership structure and corporate governance affect corporate performance. The analyses focus on the question whether the differences among the performances of firms can be attributed to the various types of ownership structures and corporate...

In Hungary, the health status of working age men is extremely bad in comparison with both the developed market economies and the neighboring transition countries. The study based on data between 1960 and 2004 investigates the health status of population in Hungary and Austria by...