The energy service company (ESCO) business model could become significantly more effective by integrating the energy-efficiency … purveyor and their capital into the underlying building ownership and operation partnership, rather than the current model in … energy and water efficiency can increase the fundamental profitability of real estate investments by raising Net Operating …

This study explores how the ownership structure of family firms gives these organizations a distinctive nature in terms … international diversification among these types of businesses. We have studied three factors related to ownership structure: the … degree of family ownership and the type and degree of ownership of the second largest shareholder (another family or a …

. Secondly, the impact of ownership structure on the share price performance and corporate risk is empirically analysed for …

activism. Taking explicitly into account the effect of a majority requirement for intervention in the management of a firm, we …

This paper shows that pyramidal ownership - a prevalent organizational structure among French corporations - has … sizeable agency costs. These agency costs arise because ownership pyramids tend to agnify the degree of separation between … ownership and control: a group leader may have effective control over a subsidiary, while holding a small fraction of its cash …

policy relating to cross media and ownership restrictions in India. The comments of all stakeholders on the issues discussed …

about this concentration.The main characteristics of the Belgian corporate ownership and equity market can be summarised as … ownership concentration with an average largest direct shareholding of 45%, (iii) holding companies and families, and to a … control blocks through business group structures and voting pacts, (iv) control is levered by pyramidal and complex ownership …

The efficiency of the design-to-analysis process for translating solid-model-based design data to computational … obtained from Sandia staff member and management interviews suggest that the current Sandia design-to-analysis process is not … mature and that this cross-organizational issue requires committed high-level ownership. A key recommendation of the study is …