.... Shareholder-oriented corporate governance has a positive effect on banks’ risk taking. The nature of ownership influences bank performance and risk taking. According to traditional corporate governance literature, the largest blockholders make the most of their power to obtain the private benefits...

... regression model to test the hypotheses on a sample of 313 non-listed Spanish family SMEs. The authors suggest the possibility of a non-linear relationship between the percentage of ownership by family members of the board of directors and firm performance, and specifically, the authors propose an S-shaped...