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Corporate Ownership and Innovation: Evidence from Switzerland

Massimiliano Vatiero | Marcello Puca

In an interview, when teased about his reckless, highly innovative and risky investments, Elon Musk replied ‘it's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket...

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Eclipse of the Public Corporation Revisited: Concentrated Equity Ownership Theory

Claudio R Rojas

The era of the US public corporation is in decline. Tectonic shifts in seemingly disparate regions of the corporate landscape are underway. Through the lens of a new theory of the firm, these...

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Corporate Governance

The Voice: The Minority Shareholder’s Perspective

Dov Solomon

Minority shareholders tend not to participate in the decision-making process of public companies with a controlling shareholder, and their voice is rarely heard. Even when they disagree with how the...

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Informed Trading in Business Groups

Miguel Leaño | Alvaro Pedraza

Institutional investors have become the majority owners of most large corporations and are expected to play a key role in financial development by providing funding for firms, enhancing market...

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Corporate Darwinism: Disciplining Managers in a World with Weak Shareholder Litigation

James D. Cox | Randall Thomas

Corporate legal scholarship largely focuses on addressing managerial agency costs. As part of this paradigm, legal scholars examine how effectively representative litigation, whether class actions or...

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