12 Conclusions

DOI: 10.4324/9781003309536-12

The results obtained so far by our research demonstrate a wide range of situations experienced by the ten companies analyzed. The financialization process proved to be more dynamic and heterogeneous than one might think at the beginning of the investigation. In one of the main indicators used by us (dividend payments to shareholders), companies almost split in half in this regard, with four companies out of ten not paying dividends to their shareholders, just to illustrate what happened in this indicator. This is an important fact because it would question the assumption of dividend payments to shareholders as a sine qua non condition for financialization. Our work has demonstrated that financialization ...

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