This chapter will consider and add to the research on corporate governance in New Zealand listed companies. There is little evidence of investigation over the past ten years of the issue of the levels of common ownership and control in large listed companies in New Zealand. We will use...

This paper describes the ownership structure in listed companies around the world. By using data for 10 000 largest listed companies, that together make up 90% of the global market capitalisation, we provide a description and comparison of the ownership structure of listed companies in 54...

In this paper, we examine independent directors as a legal transplant from dispersed ownership systems to concentrated ownership ones. We focus on Continental Europe, Japan, Brazil, Russia, India and China. Our main thesis is that independent directors have a different and relatively narrower...