The 'divorce' of ownership from control from 1900 onwards: Re-calibrating imagined global trends

Business History

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 404-438

  Hannah, Leslie ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Family ownership; Managerial capitalism; Ownership and control; Share ownership

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC HISTORY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; MERGER; OWNERSHIP; TREND ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547531736     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076790701295821     Document Type: Article

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