Corporate ownership and control
Subtitle: explaining separation in the United Kingdom
By: Brian R. Cheffins.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780199236978
Subjects: Corporate governance -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History; Corporate governance -- Great Britain -- History
Description: Much discussion on corporate governance assumes companies are owned and controlled separately, yet this is not the norm worldwide. This book explores the foundations of separation in UK companies, asking how the company came to prominence and why and how the UK stock market came to be dominated by institutional shareholders.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: The determinants of ownership and control: current theories; title: The 'sell side'; title: The 'buy side'; title: Up to 1880; title: 1880-1914; title: The separation of ownership and control by 1914; title: 1914-1939; title: 1940-1990: the sell side; title: 1940-1990: the buy side; title: Epilogue : challenges to the UK system of ownership and control.