Motivated by the relationship between foreign ownership and firm-level performances in emerging countries, we select Vietnam's listed market as the context for this empirical setting. We find that there is a significant inverted U shaped relationship between foreign ownership and firm...

In China, firms within a business group may be able to access funds provided by a parent-owned finance company within the business group. We provide direct evidence of ‘tunneling': where the parent of the business group requires member firms to increase their cash holdings through deposits in...

Shareholder wealth maximisation revisited -- Shareholder power and shareholder empowerment -- Shareholder rights and corporate objectives in China : past and present -- Towards stakeholder model -- A more suitable corporate objective in China.

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