The study aims to determine the significance of the effect of ownership structure, corporate governance, investment decisions, financial decisions and dividend policy on the value of the firm. The data used in this study are secondary data, the stock ownership structure data, the number of audit...

This important study in executive compensation topic investigated the importance of firm ownership on the CEO compensation system in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) companies. This research had compared the CEO compensation system of the owner-managed and the management-controlled companies...

This study investigates the impact of ownership structure on the dividend policy in Jordan. In particular, it aims to uncover the effects of family ownership, institutional ownership, foreign ownership, and state ownership on dividend decisions for a sample of 66 Jordanian industrial and service...

We study the ownership structure of joint-stock firms for the period of 1869 to 1945 based on a unique hand-collected data set. The data covers a selection of 785 general meetings of 276 firms, including details of more than 10,000 investors. We show that after the hyperinflation of 1923, when...