Governance Behaviors of Listed Firms' Real Controlling Shareholders under Ultimate Control Structures

The popularity of concentrated ultimate control rights and the deviation between cash flow rights and control rights around the world show that the logical starting point of corporate governance studies changes to study on the confliction of interests between real controlling shareholders and investors. Under the background of China's reality, integrating the private benefits of control and reputation mechanisms, a unified framework is built to study the conditions and influential factors of the real controlling shareholders' tunneling, monitoring, and propping behaviors. This research points out that the pyramid ownership structures determine the real controlling shareholders' behaviors and then affect the corporate performance. Thus, this research modifies the jump logic relationship between pyramid ownership structures and corporate performance.