Minority Shareholder Choices and Rights in the New Market Environment

During the last few years minority shareholders have suffered many shocks. Their rights and options were compromised. New legal and regulatory initiatives have failed to establish stability and trust on the mechanisms and contracts that are essential for organizational and market stability. The paper cites the basic rights of minority shareholders and analyzes the feasibility of their protection and enforcement. Minority shareholders are, in essence, without any choices or the choices that they have to rely on are the will and faculty of the dominant group (managers in the case of the Anglo-Saxon countries and major shareholders in Continental Europe countries).