European Patterns of Corporate Ownership: A Twelve-Country Study
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...What the salient national differences in corporate governance are and how they should best be conceptualized remain hotly debated (Gedajlovic & Shapiro, 1998; O’Sullivan, 2000; Pedersen & Thomsen, 1997; Prowse, 1995; Shleifer & Vishny, 1997; Thomsen & Pedersen, 2000)....
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...Previous literature (Gedajlovic and Shapiro 1998; Pedersen and Thomsen 1997 ) found that the role of outside directors is limited for those companies in which there is lack of separation of ownership and control....
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...In most countries there are structural barriers to acquisitions, such as family or government ownership, cross-shareholdings, and exceptions to the one share, one vote rule (Pedersen & Thomsen, 1997; Slangen & Hennart, 2007)....
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