Corporate ownership and control : British business transformed / Brian R. Cheffins. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheffins, Brian R.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate governance--Law and legislation--Great Britain--History.

Corporate governance.

Corporate governance--Great Britain--History.

Corporate governance--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Industrial organization--Great Britain.

Industrial organization.

Stock companies--Great Britain.

Stock companies.

Stock ownership--Great Britain.

Stock ownership.

Corporate governance--History--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Corporate governance--History--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 423 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Setting the scene

The determinants of ownership and control : current theories

The 'sell side'

The 'buy side'

Up to 1880

1880-1914

The separation of ownership and control by 1914

1914-1939

1940-1990 : the sell side

1940-1990 : the buy side

Epilogue : challenges to the UK system of ownership and control.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-171726-6