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Governance in Family-Owned Hong Kong Corporations

In: The Governance of East Asian Corporations

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  • Judy S. L. Tsui
  • Vanessa Stott

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In 1997, Hong Kong’s sovereignty reverted to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has retained its common law system.1 As such, and following La Porta et al.’s (1998) empirical findings, Hong Kong should offer relatively better investor protection than the jurisdictions in this book which have civil law systems. Further, a key characteristic in Hong Kong is that most of the large companies are family-owned. SCMP (2000) has argued that family owned firms in Hong Kong are subject to fewer typical agency problems than non-family firms. The challenge for Hong Kong’s regulators, as pointed out by Tsui and Shieh (2004), is to implement effective corporate governance measures which recognize the importance of concentrated ownership and yet balance the interests of controlling and minority shareholders. In this chapter we outline Hong Kong’s position in terms of ownership, regulatory provisions and various corporate governance reforms that the government has instituted.

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  • Judy S. L. Tsui & Vanessa Stott, 2004. "Governance in Family-Owned Hong Kong Corporations," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Governance of East Asian Corporations, chapter 3, pages 54-70, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52327-2_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523272_3
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