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Shareholders & Shareholder Activism

2020
Shareholders exert influence over the corporation through the board of directors and the proxy voting process. While indirect, this influence can be powerful in shaping corporate policy. This Quick Guide examines the relation between institutional investors and the corporation. It answers the questions: What types of shareholders exist?
Larcker, David F., Tayan, Brian
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Shareholder Activism: The Suspicious Shareholder

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The European Commission sees active institutional ownership as an important corporate governance mechanism, and several regulatory initiatives have been taken to enhance shareholder activism by improving shareholders’ rights and facilitating shareholder monitoring.
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Shareholders’ Duties to the Company and Fellow Shareholders

European Company Law, 2011
It is a principle of company law worldwide that shareholders - as opposed to a company's directors - may use their rights in their own interests. However, it may well be the case that shareholders do owe duties to other parties, like the company or their fellow shareholders.
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Images of the shareholder – shareholder power and shareholder powerlessness

2015
This chapter argues that effective regulation requires legal paradigms that accord with commercial reality, yet that some shareholder images are today seriously outmoded, and used selectively, inconsistently and used to achieve particular ends. The chapter assesses recent regulatory developments in the light of major changes to capital markets, whereby
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Shareholders and Board of Shareholders

2017
The LLCs are established by the shareholders who fulfill their capital contributions to constitute the initial asset of the LLCs. On one hand, the Shareholders are treated as the owners of the LLCs based on which they can enjoy the profit and fundamentally control the management and business operation, on the other hand, the LLCs are defined as a legal
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Shareholder Democracy and Shareholder Activism

2019
Abstract This chapter examines shareholder-driven corporate governance (SCG) through the twin concepts of shareholder democracy and shareholder activism. Taken together, these concepts are the vehicle through which SCG takes effect in practice.
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