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Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2001
This paper investigates the relation between the ownership structure and the performance of corporations if ownership is made multi-dimensional and also is treated as an endogenous variable. To our knowledge, no prior study has treated the corporate control problem this way.
Belén Villalonga, Harold Demsetz
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Industry and ownership structure

International Review of Law and Economics, 1998
The paper examines the relationship between main industry and corporate ownership structures using a unique database covering the 100 largest companies in each of 12 European countries. The predictive power of economic ownership theory is tested and generally supported.
Thomsen, Steen, Pedersen, Torben
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Ownership nature, ownership structure and executive pay-performance sensitivity

2021 4th International Conference on Information Management and Management Science, 2021
The reform of the remuneration system is an important part of the reform of Chinese SOEs. We take the state-owned listed companies on the A-share main board of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2009 to 2018 as a sample, and find that the compensation contracts of state-owned listed companies are effective.
Anhua Yang, Kunyue Wang, Wentao He
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Ownership structure and auditor selection

Managerial Auditing Journal, 2017
PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the effect that ownership structure (public vs private) has on the demand for high-quality auditors, specifically in the US banking industry.Design/methodology/approachThe authors predict that public banks are more likely to hire a high-quality auditor than private banks and pay a higher audit fee premium for that ...
Curtis M. Hall, Benjamin W. Hoffman, Zenghui Liu   +2 more
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Ownership Structures [PDF]

, 1996
In this paper, we analyse the effects of the massive Russian privatisation programme on the ownership of Russian firms and on the behaviour of formerly state owned enterprises. A large random sample of Russian firms is used to investigate the emerging ownership structures, patterns of control and enterprise behaviour.
J Earle, S Estrin, L Leshchenko
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The Structure of Corporate Ownership in Japan

The Journal of Finance, 1992
ABSTRACTI examine the structure of corporate ownership in a sample of Japanese firms in the mid 1980s. Ownership is highly concentrated in Japan, with financial institutions by far the most important large shareholders. Ownership concentration in independent Japanese firms is positively related to the returns from exerting greater control over ...
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The Structure of Ownership and the Theory of the Firm

The Journal of Law and Economics, 1983
The separation of ownership from control produces a condition where the interests of owner and of ultimate manager may, and often do, diverge, and where many of the checks which formerly operated to limit the use of power disappear.... In creating these new relationships, the quasi-public corporation may fairly be said to work a revolution. It ...
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The Runtime Structure of Object Ownership

2006
Object-oriented programs often require large heaps to run properly or meet performance goals. They use high-overhead collections, bulky data models, and large caches. Discovering this is quite challenging. Manual browsing and flat summaries do not scale to complex graphs with 20 million objects.
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Ownership Structure in Agrifood Chains: The Marketing Cooperative

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002
AbstractGlobalization, technological developments, and consumer concerns press farmers and food producers to enhance product innovation and to seek more efficient production and distribution structures. These changes in agrifood markets shift the relative importance of the investments by different chain partners. It may therefore be necessary to change
Hendrikse, G., Bijman, J.
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Ownership structure and profitability

1992
Following the inevitable growth in the size and scope of the modern corporation over time, Berle and Means (1932) predict that managers with little direct ownership interest, and thus having “own” rather than stockholder interests in mind, would come to run the bulk of U.S. business enterprise by the latter part of the 20th century.
Mark Fedenia, Mark Hirschey
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