Yes, over the last decade, there has been growing use of global governance standards, largely developed in the United States, to assess how countries and companies around the world protect minority investors. But these efforts have overlooked fundamental differences between controlled companies, which have a controlling shareholder, and widely held firms that lack such a controller.
是的，在过去十年里，人们越来越多地使用全球治理标准——这些标准主要是在美国发展起来的——来评估世界各国和公司是怎样保护小投资者利益的。但是，这些努力忽略了拥有一个控股股东的股权受控公司（controlled companies）和没有这样的控股股东的股权分散的公司间的根本差异。虽然股权分散的公司在美国和英国的资本市场上占主导地位，但是，在其他大部分国家里，占主导地位的却是股权受控的公司。