Changes to the ownership and control of East Asian corporations between 1996 and 2008: The primacy of politics

Carney, Richard; Child, Travers Barclay

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Changes to the ownership and control of East Asian corporations between 1996 and 2008: The primacy of politics

Date

2012

Authors

Carney, Richard

Child, Travers Barclay

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

We investigate changes to the ownership and control of East Asia's largest companies in 1996 and 2008. Newly compiled data for 1386 publicly traded companies at the end of 2008 are supplemented with existing data on 1,606 publicly traded companies at the