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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Controlling Shareholders"”.
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Understanding Controlling Shareholder Regimes
… United States and the United Kingdom, although "controlling shareholder regimes" constitute the vast majority of the world's economy. Since there have been few systematic studies concerning controlling shareholder regimes (in particular, controlling shareholder regimes in developing countries), …
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Studies on independent directors and corporate governance reforms in Taiwan
… directors have few chances getting rid of controlling shareholders’ influence. Hence, it seems unrealistic to expect that independent directors will be able to work in a manner that detects and prevents the wrongdoing of controlling shareholders and their affiliates. In addition, some …
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Do share pledges by insiders influence firm performance and value?
… payoff structure can influence the incentives of controlling shareholders and have real effects on the firm's value and performance. Using hand-collected data from India,I find that share pledges for personal loans reduce the effective ownership of controlling shareholders and destroy firm value. …
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Principal-principal conflicts in Asean 5 mergers and acquisitions
… well beyond. According to prior research, large controlling shareholders in Asian public listed companies do cause agency conflicts (Becht, Franks, Mayer, & Rossi, 2010; Burkart & Lee, 2008; Claessens, Djankov, Fan, & Lang, 2002). However, the net effect cannot be estimated with any degree of …
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Corporate opportunity doctrine: A South African company law perspective
… that demands that directors, officers and controlling shareholders of a company must not take for themselves any business opportunity that could benefit the company. However, this restriction does not apply to every member of a corporation. It is rather limited to those who could be said to …
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Essays in International Finance
… mode of acquisition. I find that targets with controlling shareholders are more likely to be engaged in a 'control stake acquisition' than a 'merger' thereby facilitating pyramidal control chains, much more so in Non-U.S. countries, but not within U.S. I also find that the returns to target …
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National governance, corporate governance and firm performance : empirical evidence from two MENA countries ‒ Jordan and UAE
… in particular, where the existence of majority (controlling) shareholders is predominant, and institutional framework is less developed. This research aims to examine the effect of country- and firm-level corporate governance mechanisms on the performance of non-financial firms listed in Jordan …
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Understanding Minority Shareholders Protections in Relation to Mandatory Bids Rule: A Comparative Study Between Kuwait law and U.S Law
… canvasses the regulation of protecting minority shareholders in the sale control transaction under Kuwaiti law that aims to answer fundamental questions. Does the mandatory bid rule ensure adequate protection to minority shareholders? Is the board neutrality rule a proper rule in the sale control …
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The impact of political connection on firm performance: empirical evidence from Vietnamese listed companies in manufacturing sector.
… create or destroy value for firms and their shareholders. To mitigate these challenges and ambiguities, a deeper understanding of the variances in the implication of political connection from different certain features of firm-, industry- and country-specific factors has been accentuated in …
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A company is a company because of other people: corporate social responsibility and the constitution
… mindset is controlled by the interests of shareholders only and, consequently, is fundamentally driven by a hunger for ever-increasing profits. However, the King Report on Corporate Governance suggests that companies should be required to promote the interests of all stakeholders, not …