Why Shareholders Have The Upper Hand ? Minority share-holders are those who have less than 50{06122e3a69f2011a565f88e0aeb17786618f68e9df77764f2353ddee6b5145e9} ownership of Equity Share Capital of a Company. These are small investors and do not have influence on decision making on functioning of company. Since only the majority share-holders have voting rights over the management and control of the company, the rights of the ...