This research aims to study the relationship between the Ownership Structure and Risk Management in time period between 2007 to 2013 based on a sample including 642 Year_Firm among campanies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. In following for each of the variables related to the Ownership Structure such as Institutional Ownership, Management ownership, Family Ownership, and Ownership Concentration, a hypothesis is formulated and its impact upon the Risk Management is investigated. The simple liner regression and multiple regression were used to examine the hypothesis. The results indicate that there is a significant positive correlation between the Management Ownership and Risk Management; Also there is a significant negative correlation between the Ownership Concentration and Risk Management. But, there is no significant correlation between the Institutional Ownership and the Family Ownership with Risk Management.
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