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Chapter 1. Corporate Governance and Control
Becht, Marco; Bolton, Patrick; Röell, Ailsa - 2003
Corporate governance is concerned with the resolution of collective action problems among dispersed investors and the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate claimholders. In this survey we review the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of...
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Dividend payouts: majority control and rent extraction
Besim, Seniha; Adaoglu, Cahit - In: Journal of business economics and management 19 (2018) 4, pp. 648-672
CEMs to measure the divergence between control and ownership rights. Supporting the rent extraction hypothesis, holding … business group companies have lower dividend payouts as the divergence between control and ownership rights widens and the …
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Bank ownership, board characteristics and performance : evidence from commercial banks in India
Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-30
reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis provide evidence of strong ownership effects with board independence …
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Chapter 10. Evolution of Ownership and Control Around the World: The Changing Face of Capitalism
Franks, Julian; Mayer, Colin - 2017
This chapter documents the evolution of ownership and control of firms around the world over a hundred year period from … stock markets and contrasts these with the persistent patterns of ownership that are observed in many countries around the … world. In particular, it documents the growth in dispersion in ownership that took place in many countries from the early …
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Public target selection and family firms
Ottolenghi, Ezgi H. - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 25 (2023) 1, pp. 1-33
We examine the relation between ownership structure and M&A target selection when family firms pursue public firm …
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Corporate governance in the European context
Gantenbein, Pascal; Volonté, Christophe - In: Die Unternehmung : Swiss journal of business research … 73 (2019) 2, pp. 122-145
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Chapter 4. Law and Corporate Governance
Bartlett, Robert; Talley, Eric - 2017
Pragmatic and effective research on corporate governance often turns critically on appreciating the legal institutions surrounding corporate entities—yet such nuances are often unfamiliar or poorly specified to economists and other social scientists without legal training. This chapter...
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Corporate governance convergence in the European M&A market
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Momtaz, Paul P. - In: Finance research letters 32 (2020), pp. 1-9
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The effects of internal governance factors on lending portfolio composition in Islamic banks
Nizar Yousef Ahmed Naim; Nora Azureen Abdul Rahman - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 11 (2023) 3, pp. 1-16
supervisory board attributes (size and cross-membership), and ownership structure (family and government). The generalized least …
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Corporate governance and the performance of manufacturing firms in Ghana : does ownership structure matter?
Sarpong-Danquah, Beatrice; Oko-Bensa-Agyekum, Kwasi; … - In: Cogent business & management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19
This study investigates the moderating role of ownership structure in the nexus between corporate governance and the … that block ownership moderates the relationship between board size, board independence, and the financial performance of …
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