Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2008 Sammanfattning jämte 3 uppsatser

Notre thèse compte trois articles. Premièrement, nous analysons de manière systématique les articles publiés dans les journaux à comité de lecture en finance qui font référence à la culture. Il s’agit de faire émerger les définitions en usage, à partir d’une analyse du terrain académique. Nos résultats sont les suivants : l’usage est généralement lié à l’énigme pays, il concerne un champs d’investigation large, il est marqué par une forte polarisation disciplinaire, et aucun cadre théorique accepté n’est identifiable. En conséquence nous nous attachons à l’étude d’un sujet où l’énigme pays prévaut : l’analyse des structures de capitaux. Notre échantillonnage - les sociétés européennes cotées sur 20 ans - procède directement de nos conclusions : nous nous efforçons de circonscrire les effets du développement économique, et de la variété qualitative dans les institutions légales, politiques, socio-économiques. Deuxièmement, nous analysons les interactions entre la politique financière des entreprises et les cycles d’affaire anticipés. Nous mettons en évidence deux mécanismes opposés, l’un pro-cyclique et l’autre contra-cyclique, caractérisant respectivement les sociétés à actionnariat dispersé et concentré. Notre argumentation se fonde sur les corollaires de la dispersion de l’actionnariat : elle entraine un équilibre d’agence particulier, une variation dans les coûts d’opportunité de l’agence et de la latitude managériale, un rôle disciplinaire spécifique pour l’endettement, un rapport de signaux altéré.Troisièmement, nous démontrons que ce mécanisme principalement financier, - de polarisation de la politique financière en fonction des cycles d’affaires anticipés - est associé à un contexte institutionnel et à des comportements financiers différents. En particulier nous démontrons que la même polarisation empirique, observée pour la cyclicité du levier d’endettement des entreprises, est observée en relation aux politiques de dividende, au « market timing », concerne l’ancrage institutionnelle des sociétés, leur profil de transparence, certaines de leurs caractéristiques structurelles, l’environnement contractuel, ainsi que des variables culturelles. / This thesis is composed of three essays. The first is composed of a screening process that has been performed on peer-reviewed journals in finance, to investigate the recent rise in interest for cultural approaches. The aim has been to let definitions emerge in order to build a field-based analysis about culture in finance. The results include the following: the use of culture is mainly connected to the country puzzle; it concerns a very large range of topics; there is a marked polarization in approaches; and, finally, no consensual framework emerges from the screening process. As a result, the focus has been on a subject where the country puzzle is looming large: i.e. capital structures. A sample has been taken, consistent with the first essay findings and recommendations. The variability of the sample is limited in terms of: economic development, and judicial, political, institutional quality, and has focused upon European listed firms over a 20-year period.In the second essay, the interactions between firms’ financial policies and expected business cycles have been investigated. Two conflicting mechanisms have been evidenced, finding: firms with dispersed ownership lead pro-cyclical policies, while firms with concentrated ownership lead contra-cyclical policies. The theoretical considerations unfold from the idea that ownership dispersion implies a different mix in agency relations, and entails specificities in agency costs and the benefits of managerial discretion, while it fosters differing needs for such things as, disciplining through debt and signaling. The third essay shows that, both, the pro- and contra-cyclical mechanisms are mediated by structural, cultural and institutional factors. Specifically, it is demonstrated that the pro-cyclical effects are observed in contexts similar akin the “U.S Role Model”; furthermore, the effects encompass varying dimensions of capital structures, such as, cyclicality of leverage, market timing or still dividend policies, and they extend to varying contextual dimensions, including ownership dispersion, institutional anchoring, transparency, risk, structural variables for firms, the contracting environment, and measures of national cultures.

Made available in DSpace on 2009-11-18T19:01:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004 / A indústria brasileira de gás liquefeito de petróleo, GLP, tem sido alvo freqüente, nos últimos anos, da atenção de órgãos reguladores, mídia e público em geral. Muitas têm sido as especulações a respeito de seu padrão de conduta publicados na imprensa, variando desde práticas predatórias até a formação disciplinada de cartel. A presente pesquisa, baseada em depoimentos de executivos da indústria e no acesso a dados das firmas dessa indústria tomado públicos - dados financeiros e operacionais - explora qual seja, afinal, o padrão de competição desse oligopólio. O estudo parte da Teoria da Estrutura de Capital aplicada para decisões de competição e mercado - preços e quantidades a ofertar para constatar que, dadas suas escolhas de estrutura de capital, as firmas esta indústria específica simplesmente adotam um padrão tradicional de arrefecimento da competição a partir de sua dívida. A dívida, nesta indústria, é utilizada para a criação de barreiras de entrada. Ainda assim, casos de acirramento da competição e de concentração de mercado foram encontrados, indicando que não haja uma disciplina formal de conduta por parte de suas firmas as quais devem, eventualmente, encontrar dificuldades - ou falta de interesse - na convivência em um mercado em fase de transformação. / The Brazilian industry of liquefied petroleum gas, LPG, has been calling, in the late years, the attention of the media, regulatory agencies and the general publico Many speculations have emerged, in the press, over its pattems of behaviour, which have been ranging from predatory practices up to a formal cartel operating under collusion. The present research, based in statements from industry executives as well as in data publicly disclosed by those firms - financiaI and operational ones - explores what their competitive behaviour would be, after alI. The study starts from the Theory of Capital Structure applied to product market competition decisions - output and price decisions - to realize that, given their capital structure choices, the firms within that particular industry simply adopt a classical behaviour of sofier competition. Debt, in this industry, has the role of an entry barrier. Even though, cases of tougher competition have been found, indicating the lack of a formal discipline among its members which ones, eventually, may find it very difficult - or of no interest - to coexist together in a fast changing industrial environment.

Submitted by Guilherme Machado (guilhermelelis@hotmail.com) on 2009-07-19T00:38:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertaçao MFEE Guilherme Machado.pdf: 462723 bytes, checksum: 37f59af1f922d119bd5b61eb3adeb553 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Vitor Souza(vitor.souza@fgv.br) on 2009-07-20T14:10:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertaçao MFEE Guilherme Machado.pdf: 462723 bytes, checksum: 37f59af1f922d119bd5b61eb3adeb553 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2009-07-20T14:11:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertaçao MFEE Guilherme Machado.pdf: 462723 bytes, checksum: 37f59af1f922d119bd5b61eb3adeb553 (MD5) / Several studies in Corporate Finance consider adjustment costs of companies’ capital structure irrelevant in its form and magnitude. This paper empirically examined adjustment costs influence on dynamic rebalancing behavior of capital structure of Brazilian listed companies from 1999 to 2007. Leverage ratios were presented under three different scenarios, considering fixed costs, proportional costs and a composition of fixed and proportional costs using a simulated reduced model of the capital structure. A non-parametric data analysis reveals that companies present a dynamic behavior in its financing decisions of capital structure adjustment, but that is far from continuous. A duration model proved to be the best choice to measure time between companies’ capital structure adjustments. Results are strongly relevant and support the theory of companies’ dynamic rebalancing behavior around an optimal range. However, adjustments do not occur immediately and the persistence shocks to capital structure accounts in its great part to adjustments costs instead of a possible indifference toward capital structure. This is a pioneer paper accounting for a djustment cost of capital structure in Brazilian market, which makes room for discussion around optimal capital structure on Brazilian companies. / Diversos estudos de Finanças Corporativas consideram os custos associados aos ajustes da estrutura de capital das empresas irrelevantes tanto na forma quanto em magnitude. Este estudo analisou empiricamente a influência dos custos de ajustamento na dinâmica dos ajustes da estrutura de capital de empresas brasileiras de capital aberto no período de 1999 a 2007. A alavancagem foi abordada sob três diferentes cenários, considerando a presença de custos fixos, custos proporcionais e por uma composição de custos fixos e proporcionais através de simulações utilizando um modelo reduzido da estrutura de capital. Em seguida a análise não paramétrica da amostra revelou que as empresas apresentam um comportamento dinâmico em suas decisões de financiamento para o ajuste da estruturas de capital, mas que não se revelou contínuo. A utilização de um modelo de duration mostrou-se adequado para mensurar o intervalo de tempo entre os ajustes da estrutura de capital das empresas. Os resultados são extremamente relevantes e suportam a teoria de um comportamento de rebalanceamento dinâmico pelas empresas de suas estruturas de capital em torno de um intervalo ótimo. Entretanto os ajustes não ocorrem de forma imediata e a persistência de choques à estrutura de capital deve-se em sua maior parte aos custos associados aos ajustes do que a uma possível indiferença à estrutura de capital. . Este trabalho constitui-se como pioneiro no mercado brasileiro acerca dos custos de ajustamento da estrutura de capital e abre espaço para a discussão do comportamento ótimo em torno da estrutura de capital de empresas nacionais.

Submitted by Marcela de Carvalho Ponce Kawauti (marcelacponce@hotmail.com) on 2014-02-28T02:11:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DoddFrank_MK_270214.pdf: 3147203 bytes, checksum: 3ff834fb3d62bc255730fa98e23ba293 (MD5) / Rejected by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br), reason: Prezada Marcela, Falta a contra capa: Fundação antes da escola, numeração das paginas não estão de acordo com a ABNT. Modelos de dissertações/teses na biblioteca digital. Att. Suzi 3799-7876 on 2014-02-28T14:43:25Z (GMT) / Submitted by Marcela de Carvalho Ponce Kawauti (marcelacponce@hotmail.com) on 2014-02-28T23:31:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DoddFrank_MK_FINAL.pdf: 3155751 bytes, checksum: 5cbd278a6017fe7bff89ba5d061ec66d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br) on 2014-03-06T14:41:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DoddFrank_MK_FINAL.pdf: 3155751 bytes, checksum: 5cbd278a6017fe7bff89ba5d061ec66d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-03-06T14:44:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DoddFrank_MK_FINAL.pdf: 3155751 bytes, checksum: 5cbd278a6017fe7bff89ba5d061ec66d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-08 / The systemic financial crisis that started in 2008 in the United States had some severe effects in the economic activity and required the bailout of financial institutions with the use of taxpayer’s money. It also originated claims for stronger regulatory framework in order to avoid another threat in the financial market. The Dodd Frank Act was proposed and approved in the United States in the aftermath of the crisis and brought, among many other features, the creation of the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the tougher inspection of financial institutions with asset above 50 billion dollars. The objective of this work is to study the causal effect of the Dodd Frank Act on the behavior of the treatment group subject to monitoring by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (financial institutions with assets above 50 billion dollars) regarding capital and compensation structure in comparison to the group that was not treated. We use data from Compustat and our empirical strategy is the Regression Discontinuity Design, not usually applied to the banking literature, but very useful for the present work since it allows us to compare the treatment group and the non-treatment group in the year of the enactment of the law (2010). No change of behavior was observed for the Capital Structure. In the Compensation Schemes, however, a decrease was found in the item other compensation for CEOs and CFOs. We also performed a robustness check by running a placebo test on the variables in the year before the law was enacted. No significance was found, which supports the conclusion that our main results were caused by the enactment of the DFA. / A crise financeira com características sistêmicas que começou em 2008 nos Estados Unidos teve efeitos severos na atividade econômica e demandou o salvamento de algumas instituições financeiras com o uso do dinheiro dos impostos. Também gerou clamores por uma regulação mais estrita de forma a evitar uma nova ameaça no mercado financeiro. O Dodd Frank Act foi proposto e aprovado nos Estados Unidos após a crise e trouxe, além de outras características, a criação do Financial Stability Oversight Council e a maior fiscalização das instituições financeiras com ativos acima de 50 bilhões de dólares. O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar o efeito causal do Dodd Frank Act no comportamento do grupo de tratamento sujeito ao monitoramento do Financial Stability Oversight Council (instituições financeiras com ativos acima de 50 bilhões de dólares) com relação à estrutura de capital e de remuneração em comparação com o grupo que não recebeu o tratamento. Usamos dados do Compustat e nossa estratégia empírica é o Regression Discontinuity Design, que não é usual na literatura que analisa bancos, mas que nos permite comparar o grupo de tratamento e o grupo não tratado no ano em que a lei entrou em vigor (2010). Nenhuma mudança de comportamento foi observada na estrutura de capital. Com relação à remuneração. No entanto, encontramos uma queda no item Other Compensation para CEOs e CFOs. Também rodamos um cheque de robustez com um teste placebo nas variáveis no ano anterior à entrada em vigor da lei. Nenhuma significância foi encontrada, o que sustenta a nossa conclusão de que os resultados principais foram de fato causados pela nova legislação

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T21:00:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Tharso Bossolani.pdf.jpg: 13639 bytes, checksum: 8ee5f1f8943534333d827d42b7b43087 (MD5) Tharso Bossolani.pdf.txt: 97419 bytes, checksum: a09e6ef5f7bc3920ee912a85c0e9fe51 (MD5) Tharso Bossolani.pdf: 343773 bytes, checksum: 2273b0e57adeef163462c9113f661b6e (MD5) license.txt: 4886 bytes, checksum: 5a30b7eb4485f26b12dbeb3883b77a18 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z / The creation of the European “New” Markets represented a substantial change to support innovative, fast growing companies. In Brazil, there is no evidence of empirical studies that analyze how an IPO impacts the companies’ performance. This study compiles data of companies that went public during 2004 and 2006, when the capital markets went through an important progress. The purpose of this study is to analyze if companies improve their performance after an IPO. The results suggest that companies accelerate the growth of assets and sales after the IPO, becoming less leveraged. These changes as consistent with credit constraints faced before the IPO. As a consequence, profitability is maintained the same after the IPO. Further, companies utilize the larger owner`s equity as a result of the IPO to increase their debt. / A criação dos novos mercados europeus representou uma mudança substancial para suportar empresas inovadoras e de alto crescimento. No Brasil, não foi verificado nenhum estudo empírico que avaliasse o impacto do IPO para o desempenho das empresas. Para tal, utilizou-se dados de empresas que fizeram seu IPO durante os anos de 2004 até 2006, quando o mercado acionário passou por um importante progresso. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar se as empresa melhoram seu desempenho após o IPO. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que as empresas brasileiras aceleram o crescimento dos ativos e receitas após o IPO, tornando-se menos alavancadas que no período pré-IPO. Estas mudanças indicam uma restrição de crédito antes do IPO. Assim, as empresas conseguem manter a mesma rentabilidade após o IPO. Além disso, as empresas utilizam-se do aumento do patrimônio líquido proveniente do IPO para fazerem captações de novas dívidas.

Submitted by Cristiane Oliveira (cristiane.oliveira@fgv.br) on 2011-06-03T15:35:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 66080100257.pdf: 200849 bytes, checksum: ae84097637204a6b31a102a876915f87 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Vera Lúcia Mourão(vera.mourao@fgv.br) on 2011-06-03T16:51:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 66080100257.pdf: 200849 bytes, checksum: ae84097637204a6b31a102a876915f87 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Vera Lúcia Mourão(vera.mourao@fgv.br) on 2011-06-03T17:02:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 66080100257.pdf: 200849 bytes, checksum: ae84097637204a6b31a102a876915f87 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-06-03T17:08:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 66080100257.pdf: 200849 bytes, checksum: ae84097637204a6b31a102a876915f87 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-01-27 / We develop partial adjustment and duration models to test the relevance of country idiosyncrasies in determining the capital structure of publicly-traded Brazilian, Chilean and Mexican firms. Our data panel, ranging from the 4th quarter of 1996 to the 2nd quarter of 2010, consists of 4403 firm-quarter observations pertaining to 139 firms. Our findings suggest that capital structure dynamics vary by country and that local idiosyncrasies are key determinants of firms’ leverage levels. Additionally, trade off behavior cannot be clearly detected among Brazilian, Chilean and Mexican firms, suggesting that alternative theories steer the financing decision processes of Latin American managers. / Desenvolvemos modelos de ajuste parcial e de duration para testar a relevância de fatores específicos de países na determinação da estrutura de capital de empresas listadas nas bolsas de valores brasileira, chilena e mexicana. Utilizamos dados em painel, em um período que se estende do quarto trimestre de 1996 ao segundo trimestre de 2010, abrangendo 4403 observações relacionadas a 139 empresas diferentes. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que a dinâmica da estrutura de capital varia por país e que idiossincrasias locais são determinantes-chave dos níveis de alavancagem das empresas. Não detectamos comportamento explicado pela Teoria de Trade Off entre as empresas brasileiras, chilenas e mexicanas, o que indica que teorias alternativas possam comandar os processos de decisão de financiamento dos gestores latino americanos.

The primary objective of this study was to examine how and to what extent entrepreneurial orientation, firm internal resources and capital structure decisions affect growth of small enterprises, following the resource- based view on determinants of growth and static trade-off theory of capital structure as theoretical frameworks. Regardless of the number of earlier study, there is no consensus among scholars on determinants of growth due to the existence of different theories and metrics of growth. Moreover, as the earlier studies were undertaken in developed countries, their research findings could not permit generalization on the effect of the explanatory variables on growth in less developed countries like Ethiopia. Therefore, this research tried to fill the gap in the existing body of knowledge on determinants of growth by contextualizing the association of growth with firm specific factors and EO from the Ethiopian context, more specifically from the context of Tigray Regional State. Besides, extra variables that were either not considered or might have been tested separately in earlier studies in Ethiopia were integrated into the regression model. In this mixed explanatory cross-sectional research, systematic random sampling techniques and structure questionnaire were applied to collect primary data from 333 small enterprises operating in five urban towns of Tigray region. Dependent variable of the study was growth of small enterprises, defined as logarithm of change in number of employees at the time of establishment and time of survey. The explanatory variables comprise of entrepreneurial orientation with three dimensions, tangible and intangible resources under the control of a given enterprises, capital structure decisions, external factors such as marketing related problems cost and accessibility of infrastructure, government policies and bureaucracy, business development services were also included in the regression model. Descriptive statistics, statistical difference tests, multiple regression analysis and Propensity Score Matching were applied for the purpose of data analysis with the help of Stata version 12 software. Majority of the small enterprises demonstrated moderate degree of entrepreneurial orientation and location nearer to major customers, entrepreneurial orientation, strong financial position, access to credit and leverage have statistically significant positive effect on growth of small enterprises which support the resource based view and static trade-off theory of capital structure as well as the perceived hypothesis. On the other hand, consistent to the hypothesis, age and size of small enterprises showed negative significant effect on growth, that supports Jovanovich’s learning model but against the Girbat’s law of proportionate effect. Moreover, the relationship between education and growth was found to be non-linear or volatile-growth of SEs tend to declined until certain level, reached a minimum level after which SEs with more educated owners tend to grow faster. This implies that unless owners’ years of education reach a very high level of schooling, a given increase in years of schooling could not necessarily result into higher growth rate. Based on the findings, the researcher suggests (i) in order to solve financial constraints of SEs, stakeholder need introduction of National Credit Guarantee Fund, Promotion of non-bank financial services, introduce Mandatory Minimum Bank Loan to small enterprises, establish specialized banking system that specifically support the small enterprise sector, (ii) provide working premises such as shades at concessional cost, (iii) facilitate establishment of small enterprise commercial centers, (iv) strengthen the clustering practices,(v) facilitate provision of adequate infrastructure at reasonable price, (vi) as TVET completed individuals outperform in growth rate, educational institutions in Ethiopia need to incorporate competence based training system and entrepreneurship into their syllabus by strengthening the industry university linkages / Business Management / DBL

Studien avser att förklara hur kapitalstrukturen, bestående av eget kapital, kortfristiga skulder och långfristiga skulder påverkar valet av kapitalbudgeteringsteknik inom stora svenska bolag vid strategiska investeringar. Genom Trade Off teorin och Principal Agent teorin formulerades studiens hypoteser. Empirin samlades in via enkäter som skickades ut till 325 bolag listade på Nasdaq OMX Small, Mid och Large Cap, där svarsfrekvensen blev ca 19 %. För att kartlägga kapitalstrukturen inhämtades årsredovisningar för att sedan beräkna nyckeltal som mäter de olika delarna i kapitalstrukturen. Resultatet har analyserats med hjälp av statistiska analyser, vilket visar att kapitalstrukturen påverkar valet av kapitalbudgeteringsteknik inom stora bolag. En hög andel kortfristiga skulder har en positiv association med osofistikerade tekniker medan en hög andel långfristiga skulder inte har någon association med varken osofistikerade eller sofistikerade tekniker. Vidare påvisas det inte att högt eget kapital har en positiv association med sofistikerade tekniker, däremot finns en negativ association med osofistikerade tekniker. Tidigare studier har inte delat upp skuldstrukturen och menar att en hög andel skulder ökar användandet av osofistikerade tekniker. Studier som är baserade på stora företag har inte tidigare påvisat ett samband mellan hög skuldsättning och osofistikerade tekniker, vilket gör skäl för uppdelningen. Denna studien har bidragit med att dela upp skuldstrukturen i kortfristiga skulder respektive långfristiga skulder. / The study intends to explain how the capital structure, consisting of equity, short-term liabilities and long- term liabilities, affects the choice of capital budgeting techniques in large Swedish companies in strategic investments. Through the Trade Off theory and Principal Agent theory, the study's hypotheses were formulated. Empirical was collected true surveys sent to 325 companies listed on Nasdaq OMX Small, Mid and Large Cap, where the response rate was about 19 %. To chart the capital structure, annual reports were obtained to calculate key ratios that measure the various components of the capital structure. The result has been analyzed using statistical analyzes, which shows that the capital structure affects the choice of capital budgeting techniques in larger companies. A high proportion of short-term liabilities has a positive association with unsophisticated techniques, while a high proportion of long-term liabilities has no association with neither unsophisticated or sophisticated techniques. Furthermore, it is not shown that high equity has a positive association with sophisticated techniques, but there is a negative association with unsophisticated techniques. Previous studies have not broken up the debt structure and mean that a high proportion of debt increases the use of unsophisticated techniques. Studies based on larger companies have not previously demonstrated a link between high leverage and unsophisticated techniques, which makes the division possible. This study has helped to break down the debt structure in short-term liabilities and long-term liabilities.

Dentre os atuais desafios do direito societário brasileiro, a estrutura da propriedade acionária das sociedades por ações de capital aberto e a identificação daqueles que as comandam merecem destaque. O aquecimento das transações realizadas via mercado de capitais e a consolidação dos segmentos especiais de governança corporativa no Brasil resultaram no chamado fenômeno de dispersão acionária, que evidenciou certa ruptura na tradicional estrutura de propriedade acionária exclusivamente concentrada, até então predominante nas companhias brasileiras. Diante desse cenário contrastante, de mudanças no perfil do poder de controle sobre as companhias brasileiras, o presente trabalho apresentará em seu capítulo terceiro, após breve análise das estruturas de capital identificadas em diferentes economias e de retrospectiva sobre a propriedade acionária das companhias brasileiras (a serem apresentadas em seu segundo capítulo), extensa pesquisa empírica realizada com o propósito de identificar a atual estrutura de propriedade acionária predominante entre as companhias brasileiras listadas no segmento especial do Novo Mercado da BMF&BOVESPA (Novo Mercado), e com o objetivo de averiguar a existência do chamado controle societário minoritário entre tais companhias, conforme detalhado nos apêndices desta dissertação. Referida pesquisa empírica representa, ainda, rico processamento da base de dados e informações divulgadas à Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) pelas companhias listadas no Novo Mercado, e serve de base para a avaliação da necessidade de eventuais mudanças nos conceitos adotados pelo Direito Societário pátrio, tendo em vista entendimento divergente identificado na doutrina e em julgados da CVM no âmbito da possibilidade de existência de um controle societário exercido por acionista ou grupo de acionistas não detentores da maioria do capital social votante, conforme detalhado no quarto capítulo deste estudo. Por fim, serão apresentadas, no quinto e último capítulo, as considerações finais à análise proposta, com destaque para as principais conclusões obtidas na elaboração dos capítulos terceiro e quarto descritos acima, dentre elas a existência do controle societário interno não majoritário (controle minoritário) entre companhias listadas no Novo Mercado, bem como os reflexos dessa constatação no âmbito da prática do Direito Societário. / Among the current challenges of the Brazilian Corporate Law, the structure of the capital ownership of the corporations and the identification of those who exercises control over it remains an important aspect to be taken into consideration when analyzing the main aspects of the Brazilian capital market. The heat up of the transactions carried out through the capital market, and the consolidation of the special corporate governance segments in Brazil resulted in the so called phenomenon of the dispersed ownership, which revealed a rupture from the traditional structure of extremely concentrated ownership, that was prevailing until now among the Brazilian corporations. Given such contrasting scenario of changes in the profile of corporate power over Brazilian corporations, these thesis, after describing, over its first two chapters, the structures of capital ownership existent in different economies and providing a retrospective on the capital ownership of Brazilian corporations, presents, in its third chapter, an extensive empirical research performed with the purposes of identifying the current structure of capital ownership prevailing among the Brazilian companies listed in the Novo Mercado, special segment of the Brazilian Exchange BMF&BOVESPA (the New Market), as well as ascertaining the existence of minority corporate control among such companies, as detailed in the appendixes hereto. The referred empirical research presents, furthermore, detailed data processing in connection with the information disclosed by such companies to the Brazilian Stock Exchange Commission, the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), and is also used as basis for reviewing the need of eventual changes in the concepts embodied by the Brazilian Corporate Law, in view of the divergent understanding identified in the Brazilian doctrine and judgments issued by the CVM in connection with the existence of a corporate control exercised by a shareholder or group of shareholders owner of shareholding not representative of the majority of the voting capital stock, as detailed in the fourth chapter of these thesis. Finally, the fifth and last chapter of these study presents the final considerations in connection with the review proposed hereto, highlighting the main conclusions obtained through the elaboration of the third and fourth chapters described above, among them the existence of a not majority internal control (minority control) in companies listed in the New Market, as well as the effects of such conclusion in the light of the practice of corporate law.