Ownership

In a 2010 special report, The Economist called the resurgence of state-owned mega-enterprises, especially those in emerging economies, “L

Conglomerates, multinational corporations and business groups are non-exclusive forms of complex firms.

This chapter documents the evolution of ownership and control of firms around the world over a hundred year period from the beginning of

Despite predictions of their demise in the aftermath of the collapse of socialist economies in Eastern Europe, state-owned enterprises (S