The book places ownership at the center of all relevant choices that the
company makes: in particular, it addresses the "problem" of governance
from the perspective of ownership, and in a broader and more articulated
sense than most Anglo-Saxon studies. The authors analyze the
relationship between ownership, governance, and corporate strategy, with
a dual objective. On the one hand, the aim is to identify the
consistency relationships between the governance structure of the
company and its results, because of the centrality that it assumes with
respect to many of the strategic choices that companies make. On the
other hand, the objective is to consider possible variants to the "basic
scheme," going to investigate the role of ownership, governance and
management from a contingency perspective, i.e. in different types of
enterprise: public companies, multinational enterprises, state-owned
enterprises, and especially family-owned enterprises are analyzed. The
second part of the book analyzes, in a number of countries, different
economic and business systems and their role in defining the type of
corporate governance that has emerged.