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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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Evasive shareholder meetings [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Corporate Finance, 2014
We study the strategic scheduling of annual shareholder meetings. When companies move their annual meetings a great distance from headquarters, they tend to experience pronounced stock market underperformance in the six months after the meeting and announce earnings below expectations over the subsequent year.
David Yermack, Yuanzhi Li
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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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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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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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Managerial Shareholding

The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1985
Flath, David, Knoeber, Charles R
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Do Shareholder Tender Agreements inform or expropriate shareholders?

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2006
By signing a Shareholder Tender Agreement (STA) a shareholder pre-commits to tender her shares to a particular bidder, forsaking the right to tender to any subsequent bidder. In a representative sample of tender offers between 1995 and 2007, 60% of the offers contain an STA. STA deals are associated with lower premiums, greater ownership concentration,
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