The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) had identified various corporate governance challenges in Asia, the most serious of these being the expropriation of minority shareholders. Since the 1997 Asian economic crisis, minority shareholder protection has become an area for focus as part of the overall movement to improve corporate governance of public listed companies in Thailand. The Stock Exchange of Thailand estimated that it has about nine million investors, directly and indirectly. A majority of these are minority shareholders who, left on their own accord, have little competitive advantage against controlling shareholders and their nominated corporate insiders. This study examines the protection of minority shareholders in public listed companies in Thailand by conducting a survey on a sample of 150 minority shareholders in order to derive recommendations for improvement of their protection.

This study examines the protection of minority shareholders in public listed companies in Thailand by conducting a survey on a sample of 150 minority shareholders in order to derive recommendations for improvement of their protection.

Since the Asian currency crisis the legal framework for protecting minority shareholders in Thai listed companies has been strengthened. International and Western legal principles have been adopted to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. the main purpose has been to grow investment. The research questions whether the adopted legal principles are appropriate in the Thai context. It considers (i) whether the existing Thai legal framework provides adequate protection for minority shareholders; (ii) whether the transplanting of legal frameworks from other jurisdictions into Thai law is feasible; and (iii) what the obstacles to legal reforms are.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Civil / Private, Trade, Anti Trust Law, Business Law, grade: B+, Tsinghua University, language: English, abstract: The Company Law of the People’s Republic of China was revised in the year 2005. This paper analyses the protection of the minority shareholders under the new law.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Civil / Private / Trade / Anti Trust Law / Business Law, grade: B+, Tsinghua University, language: English, abstract: The Company Law of the People's Republic of China was revised in the year 2005. This paper analyses the protection of the minority shareholders under the new law.

In her comparative analysis of the protection of minority shareholders in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, the author first compares the law-on-the-books, then evaluates which informal rules and enforcement characteristics determine the protection of minority shareholders in each country, and finally compares these factors and their impact. The analysis of the formal rules aiming to protect minority shareholders in the three countries shows that a conversion towards the Anglo-American concept of corporate law is taking place. However, in all three jurisdictions, there is a gap between the "law in the books" and the "law in action" although the degree of this gap depends on the local context. Although the local context is very different in the three countries for various reasons, the legal devices to protect minority shareholders face similar problems in all three jurisdictions. In sum, monitoring of corporations - and thus the protection of minority shareholders - remains a public good. Due to the lack of control by a fully developed capital market, public enforcement remains a key issue. The author therefore concludes that in all three countries, further improvement of corporate governance requires reforms of public governance. -- In ihrer rechtsvergleichend angelegten Arbeit untersucht die Verfasserin den Schutz von Minderheitenaktionären in Vietnam, Thailand und Malaysia sowohl auf der Ebene der gesetzlichen Regelungen als auch auf der Ebene ihrer tatsächlichen Wirkung. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, einen Einblick in die tatsächliche Funktionsweise des Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrechts zu ermöglichen. Gestützt auf die Ergebnisse ihrer Feldforschung zeigt die Autorin, dass sich die Rechtsregelungen in den drei Jurisdiktionen auf dem Papier zwar denjenigen der USA annähern, zwischen dem "law in the books" und dem "law in action" jedoch ein erheblicher Unterschied besteht, dessen Ausmaß vom jeweiligen lokalen Kontext bestimmt wird. Die Autorin zeigt auf, dass sich die Mechanismen, die dem Schutz von Minderheitenaktionären dienen, in allen drei Jurisdiktionen trotz der erheblichen Unterschiede im lokalen Kontext ähnlichen Schwierigkeiten ausgesetzt sehen. Der Schutz von Minderheitenaktionären erweist sich im Ergebnis als ein öffentliches Gut, der in Anbetracht einer mangelnden Kontrolle durch den Kapitalmarkt auf stattliche Durchsetzung angewiesen ist und damit nicht nur Reformen der corporate governance, sondern auch der public governance voraussetzt.

Thailand's currency crisis set off a national and regional economic meltdown in the closing years of the twentieth century. Written by Thai economists, this book gives a progress report on good corporate governance practices in listed non-financial companies, financial institutions, state-owned enterprises, and non-listed companies in Thailand.