controlled by families do not have significantly lower performance than foreign- controlled firms. The involvement of families in managing the firms is not significantly associated with all performance measures. The results, therefore, indicate that families do not incur higher expropriation costs. Instead, familie seem to provide good monitoring and incentive alignment to that of other stakeholders Due to data limitations, this study focuses on the cross-sectional relation the variables. Further investigation using panel data certainly should give better understanding about the effects of ownership on the firm's value. More work remains to be done on the net effects of concentrated ownership in emerging markets. Up to date, research has focused on the direct relationship between ownership and performance. It is also of interest to investigate the relationship via the behavior of the controlling shareholders. For example controlling shareholders' discretion over corporate decisions, such as structure, investment decisions, compensation schemes, management successions and dividend policy.