The Relationship Between Corporate Risk Taking & Ownership Structure With Emphasize on Legal Environment And Business Groups

In this research, the relationship between corporate risk taking and ownership structure is investigated. Corporate risk taking measured by the variance of ROA and ownership structure is proxied by the level of the Major shareholder owner-ship. In this regard the data of 113 Companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange in a period from 2010 to 2015 examined. Using Regression analysis-Fixed effects method. The result indicates that, there is a significant negative relationship be-tween major shareholder ownership and risk taking; it means if major share-holder ownership increases then corporate risk taking decreases. The findings also show that being a member of business groups and the legal environment improvement have no effect on the relationship between major shareholder owner-ship and risk taking.