Corporate ownership and control corporate governance and economic development in Sri Lanka /
The governance of companies is of importance to developing countries due to the link between effective corporate governance and economic development. Ownership and control of public companies, except in the US and UK, is often in the hands of a few individuals, families or corporate groups and impac...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific Pub. Co.,
c2011.
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| Series: | Series on economic development and growth ;
v. 6. |
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7130#t=toc |
Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Corporate governance and economic development : The nexus. 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. Corporate governance and economic development : The theory and evidence. 1.3. Corporate governance for economic development : The way forward. 1.4. Conclusion
- ch. 2. Corporate ownership, control and corporate governance. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. Context of study : Sri Lanka. 2.3. Corporate ownership, control and corporate governance. 2.4. Conclusion
- ch. 3. The separation of ownership and control in Sri Lanka. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Data, definition of terms and methodology. 3.3. Results. 3.4. Corporate ownership and control : The challenges facing corporate governance in Sri Lanka. 3.5. Conclusion
- ch. 4. Determinants of ownership and control structures in Sri Lanka. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. An outline of ownership evolution in Sri Lanka. 4.3. Determinants for the persistence of concentrated ownership in Sri Lanka. 4.4. Implications for corporate governance in light of the causes for the persistence of concentrated corporate ownership
- ch. 5. Controlling shareholder systems and corporate governance. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Costs of controlling shareholder systems. 5.3. Benefits of controlling shareholder systems. 5.4. The implications of a cost-benefit analysis of controlling shareholder systems for corporate governance. 5.5. The controlling shareholder trade-off
- ch. 6. Controlling shareholder systems : The search for reform. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Controlling the costs of controlling shareholder systems. 6.3. External governance mechanisms and controlling the costs of controlling shareholder systems. 6.4. The framework for reform
- ch. 7. The role of lenders in controlling shareholder systems. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Lenders as a corporate governance mechanism. 7.3. Lenders as a corporate governance mechanism. 7.4. Legal and institutional preconditions necessary for lenders to be an effective corporate governance mechanism to control the costs of controlling shareholders in Sri Lanka. 7.5. Conclusion
- Conclusion.