ABSTRACT Manuscript Type: Review Research Question/Issue: Convergence in corporate
governance across countries has been a subject of interest and controversy in a variety of …

Ownership is the touchstone of corporate governance analysis' and a central strand of
literature on theory of the firm. 2 The identity of a corporation's equity owners has enormous …

China ahora es el segundo país que más empresas Global Fortune 500 tiene en el mundo.
Casi todas ellas son empresas estatales (SOEs, acrónimo en inglés) organizadas dentro de …

What forces explain corporate structure and shareholder behavior? For decades this
question has gone unasked, as both corporate law scholars and practitioners tacitly …

A strong public securities market, especially a public stock market, can facilitate economic
growth. But creating strong public securities markets is hard. That securities markets exist at …

The study tests the functional convergence hypothesis, which states that foreign firms can
leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and agreeing …

Corporate law generally makes voting power proportional to economic ownership. This
serves several goals. Economic ownership gives shareholders an incentive to exercise …

The large publicly held firm dominates business in the United States despite its critical
infirmities, namely the frequently fragile relations between stockholders and managers …

This article outlines a distinctive, albeit not entirely unprecedented, research agenda for the
sociolegal study of contracts. In the past, law and society scholars have tended to examine …

Schumpeter's canonical depiction of the entrepreneur as an agent of social and economic
change implies that entrepreneurs are especially sensitive to the social environment. We …