The specific constraints known by the public sector, especially in the last two decades, raise a series of questions, not only from the perspective of the State’s capacity to exercise its shareholder role, but also from the one of the public enterprises’ capacity to obtain performance. Their...

The actual economic stage in Romania imposed the adopting of some quick measures in the direction of creating the regulatory framework that should encourage the increasing of public enterprises’ performances. In this context, GEO (Government emergency Ordinance) nr 109/30.11.2011 states a set...

This paper analyzes the impact of blockownership dispersion on firm value. Blockholdings by multiple blockholders is a widespread phenomenon in the U.S. market. It is not clear, however, whether dispersion among blockholder is preferable to having a more concentrated ownership structure. To test...

The objective of our study is to look for anequilibrium among three factors: the privatebenefits that main shareholders can obtain fromthe firm, the social benefits derived from acertain ownership structure (such assupervision and alignment of interests) and thecosts derived from ownership...

Although US and European research has documented improvement in earnings quality associated with corporate governance characteristics, the situation in Latin America is questionable, given the business environment in which firms operate, which is characterized by controlling family ownership and...

New business practices are mainly characteristic of large firms, especially those quoted on the stock market. Listed companies show a higher commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices because capital markets allow activists to become a firm’s socially oriented shareholders....