Academic contributions on the demutualization of stock exchanges so far have been predominantly devoted to social … itself. While there is consensus that the case for demutualization is predominantly driven by the need to improve the …

As a part of the demutualization process, stock exchanges are transformed from a traditional membership (mutual …-profit type and as many as 40% are listed exchanges. But we cannot conclude that stock exchanges, after the demutualization …

on cooperatives that preferred conversion or demutualization to hybridization. The paper describes the chronology and the … geography of demutualization and analyses the forces that drove it over the last decades. The main conclusion is that … demutualization provided solutions for real problems, as hybridization did, however the choice between these two options seems to have …