Ownership concentration and corporate governance practices: Substitution or expropriation effects?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 182-195

  Bozec, Yves ^a   Bozec, Richard ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Deviation from one share one vote; Dominant shareholder; Expropriation of minority shareholders; Ownership concentration; Substitution effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548946158     PISSN: 08250383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/CJAS.23     Document Type: Article

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