“…There are descriptive studies that have reported on the extreme degree of ownership concentration that prevailed until recently (Aldrighi & Mazzer, 2005, 2007Leal, Carvalhal-da-Silva, & Valadares, 2002;among others) and the decline in the degree of ownership concentration in Brazilian companies in recent years (Canellas & Leal, 2009;Gorga, 2009;Sternberg, Leal, & Bortolon, 2011), while others have linked ownership structure to performance or market value of a company (Leal & Bortolon, 2009;Leal & Carvalhal-da-Silva, 2006;Okimura, Silveira, & Rocha, 2007).…”