Ownership structure, investment behaviour and firm performance in Japanese manufacturing industries

Organization Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-35

  Gedajlovic, Eric ^a,d   Yoshikawa, Toru ^b,e   Hashimoto, Motomi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital expenditures; Corporate governance; Dividends; Foreign investors; Institutional investors; Japan; Ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 15544380681     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840605046346     Document Type: Review

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