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The research at hand was given direction by a number of contemporary regulatory developments within the European Union as well as by some research gaps within the existing literature on shareholder monitoring. Section 1.1 highlights the regulatory developments, the purpose and main research questions of the present thesis resulting therefrom as well as the research gaps the present thesis intends to fill. The course of the present thesis is outlined in section 1.2.
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P. Urban, M. (2015). Introduction. In: The Influence of Blockholders on Agency Costs and Firm Value. Auditing and Accounting Studies. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11402-2_1
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