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Journal of Sociological Research ISSN 1948-5468 20 13, Vol. 4, No.2 Ownership Structure Characteristics and Firm Performance: A Conceptual Study Ebrahim Mohammed Al-Matari Faculty of Business and Economics, Ammran University, Yemen and Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia Email: ibrahim_matri@ Abdullah Kaid Al-Swidi Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia Email: swidi@.my Faudziah Hanim Bt Fadzil Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia Email: fhanim@.my Doi:10.5296/jsr.v4i2.4835 URL: /10.5296/jsr.v4i2.4835 Abstract This study aims to offer a comprehensive description of the relevant literature related to the association between the ownership structures, namely; ownership concentration, managerial ownership, government ownership, foreign ownership and institutional ownership; and firm performance. Ownership structure is among the corporate governance primary mechanisms that has been a focus of many researchers and scholars for few decades. Despite that, there is a lack of prior studies that examine these relationships in the developing countries. In the developed countries context, there are few studies to examine the aforementioned relationship. So, the main objective of this study was to bridge this gap and try to enrich exist