power approach suggests that boards do not operate at arm’s length in devising executive compensation arrangements; rather …

. Boards of publicly traded companies with dispersed ownership, we argue, cannot be expected to bargain at arm’s length with …

This paper tests the hypothesis that the threat of a contested <p> takeover improves corporate performance. This is … done by a cross-sectional <p> analysis of listed Danish firms with and without effective takeover defenses. <p> Takeover … defenses adopted by Danish firms mainly consist of dual class <p> voting rights often in combination with foundation ownership …

, especially when ownership is concentrated. …

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic) ownership improves … some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring by increasing …

We analyze the effects of different types and concentration of ownership on performance using a population of firms in … variables show that contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of privatization and different types of ownership are limited … and many types of private owners do not generate performance that is different from that of firms with state ownership …

Canadian firms have different roots (e.g., more concentrated ownership and smaller size) than U.S. firms and Canadian …

This study aims to investigate ownership in Turkish public firms from a different perspective than in previous studies …. It investigates various patterns in the interaction of ownership measures and other corporate governance mechanisms. I …