Family Control And Firm Value

Based on fundamental theories of corporate governance, this paper makes a theoretic and empirical study on the relationship between the governance structure and firm value of family control listed companies. Characterized both by family firms and modern firms, private listed companies possess their distinctive dual agency relationships, which can be perceived as the relationship among family controlling shareholders and small shareholders and the relationship among family shareholders and professional managers. Related to the realities in our country, this paper aims at discussing the origin, the form and the development of the dual agency relationship of China's family controlled listed companies. In addition, it configures the firm value model of our family controlled listed companies in terms of governance structure.To begin with, this paper summarizes the actuality of family controlling companies all over the world. Then it depicts the development and current situation of them in china. Although family controlling companies only take small percentage among listed companies, they simultaneously evolve with the development of china's stock market. Generally speaking, this is the continuous growth in twists and turns. As more and more family controlling listed companies begin to emerge, new problems like big controlling share, which derives from the conflict in the dual agency relationship has come into being.This paper makes a deep survey of the governance of family controlling listed companies. Based on the special dual agency relationship under the governance of...