Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
Subtitle: Recent Innovative Developments (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781403916334
Subjects: Development economics; Industry & Industrial Studies; Ownership & organization of enterprises; Development - Economic Development; Case studies; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Stock ownership; Industrial management; Industries - General; Business & Economics / Economic Development; Corporate governance; Corporations
First sentence: There is an extensive body of literature promoting the conventional paradigm that private investors should own the firm and that the existence of well-defined, personalized property rights is a basic precondition for the proper functioning of a market economy.