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shareholders in civil law systems explains crucial differences in corporate structure and finance. It questions the thesis that the …
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broadly accepted that corporations - particularly the world's largest publicly traded corporations – need to be governed with … Modern Corporation Project at Cass Business School, launched the Corporate Governance for a Changing World Roundtable Series …
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Over the period 1980-2007 multinational firms' investment grew four times faster than worldwide GDP. Yet the evidence on whether global diversification is valuable is inconclusive. This paper uses detailed FDI data for 251 UK multinational firms and 4,676 subsidiaries to show that multinational...
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This survey gives an overview of the current state of knowledge on the question whether corporate governance structures worldwide are determinants of differences in economic performance. We look at the identities of owners, monitoring boards, and legal systems and find that some though not all...
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This paper examines the effects of economic shocks originating from China’s Five-Year Plans on firms’ shareholders and …
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from this reality: what ought to be the role of shareholder stewardship in a world dominated by controlling shareholders … of the shares; however, it has been transplanted into jurisdictions where controlling shareholders predominate and … institutional shareholders are collectively minority shareholders. This Chapter addresses an important question that naturally flows …
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Kingdom hastily released the world’s first stewardship code to cure what was perceived to be the UK’s primary corporate … why shareholder stewardship around the world is far more complex than the existing literature suggests and how this … stewardship. Based on the distinct varieties of stewardship in jurisdictions around the world, this Chapter concludes by …
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shareholders. The latter, in particular, were considered one of the fundamental factors of the British crisis, because of their … world realities. However, while in the UK stewardship was used as a crisis-repelling technique, in other contexts the values …
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