Book review Corporate ownership and control: British business transformed Brian R. Cheffins Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, 448 pp. ISBN: 978—0—199—23697—8 SAGE Publications, Inc. 201010.1177/1032373210346916 © 2010 The Author(s) The Author(s) GraemeWines Deakin University My initial reaction when I first cast my eyes over the title for this book was along the lines of: “Surely this issue of corporate ownership and control has been done to death”. However, Chapter 1 engages attention by pointing out that despite publicly traded companies being relatively more common in Britain than else- where, those companies outside Britain tend to have a higher propensity for individual shareholders to control large blocks of shares. In Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed, Cheffins poses the question: Why the difference? Brian R. Cheffins, who is the S.J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, examines the issue of corporate ownership and control from the perspective of someone with a legal, rather than accounting background (although this is not to suggest that there are not those interested in accounting history who have such a legal background). Chapter 1 begins with an interesting remark made by a British financial
Book review: Corporate ownership and control: British business transformed:Brian R. Cheffins Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, 448 pp. ISBN: 978—0—199—23697—8
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Book review Corporate ownership and control: British business transformed Brian R. Cheffins Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, 448 pp. ISBN: 978—0—199—23697—8 SAGE Publications, Inc. 201010.1177/1032373210346916 © 2010 The Author(s) The Author(s) GraemeWines Deakin University My initial reaction when I first cast my eyes over the title for this book was along the lines of: “Surely this issue of corporate ownership and control has been done to death”. However, Chapter 1 engages attention by pointing out that despite publicly traded companies being relatively more common in Britain than else- where, those companies outside Britain tend to have a higher propensity for individual shareholders to control large blocks of shares. In Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed, Cheffins poses the question: Why the difference? Brian R. Cheffins, who is the S.J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, examines the issue of corporate ownership and control from the perspective of someone with a legal, rather than accounting background (although this is not to suggest that there are not those interested in accounting history who have such a legal background). Chapter 1 begins with an interesting remark made by a British financialPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Book review: Corporate ownership and control: British business transformed:Brian R. Cheffins Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, 448 pp. ISBN: 978—0—199—23697—8
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