The current literature on firm ownership around the world shows that concentrated ownership with only one or a few controlling owners is common, especially in many European and Asian countries. The dispersed ownership has proven to be uncommon and even countries with supposed dispersed ownership...

The paper provides a research summary on the relation between the levels of valuation multiples and eight criteria of company size. The criteria comprised market capitalization, enterprise value, operating revenues, EBITDA, EBIT, net profit, sum of total assets, and number of employees. Using...

This paper investigates the impact of legal tradition and firm size on investment performance for firms in 16 European countries. Europe as a region is of special interest in this sense since the legal systems differs widely within a concentrated geographical area. Anglo Saxon, German, French as...