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2007
The term ‘shareholder as such’ refers to those elements in the shareholder's position that relate to his typical original rights. These involve, first, the expectation that his investment will pay off at some time in the future, through selling his shares or receiving dividends (section I below: ‘the profit-oriented shareholder’).
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The term ‘shareholder as such’ refers to those elements in the shareholder's position that relate to his typical original rights. These involve, first, the expectation that his investment will pay off at some time in the future, through selling his shares or receiving dividends (section I below: ‘the profit-oriented shareholder’).
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Large shareholders’ shareholding and earnings’ longitudinal persistence
Applied Economics Letters, 2018ABSTRACTThis paper is the first to adopt longitudinal data analysis methods, such as the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis model, hierarchical linear model and Cox proportional hazards regression model, to investigate the relationship between large shareholders’ shareholding and earnings persistence.
Qianhua Lei, Zhentao Liang, Huili Chen
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Law and Economics of Shareholder Rights and Ownership Structures: How Trivial are Shareholder Rights for Shareholders? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Law and Finance theory stresses the importance of shareholder rights for the reliability and development of capital markets. Many European Parliaments picked up this corporate governance issue. We expand the analysis of Lele and Siems (2007) and show that the number of shareholder rights grew steadily in many countries over the last fifteen years.
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2017
This chapter focuses on the position of shareholders in relation to a company. It considers the following issues: registration of membership; the powers of shareholders in relation to their company; the legal protection given to shareholders by the rules of equity and by the Companies Act 2006; and the payment of dividends to shareholders.
J. Scott Slorach, Jason Ellis
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This chapter focuses on the position of shareholders in relation to a company. It considers the following issues: registration of membership; the powers of shareholders in relation to their company; the legal protection given to shareholders by the rules of equity and by the Companies Act 2006; and the payment of dividends to shareholders.
J. Scott Slorach, Jason Ellis
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Clustered shareholder activism
Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2013AbstractResearch Question/IssueThis study examines activism campaigns where multiple activists simultaneously target the same firm—which we term clustered shareholder activism. Despite the growing influence of shareholder activism on corporate governance, the clustered activism phenomenon has previously only been addressed indirectly, anecdotally, or ...
Tanja Artiga González, Paul Calluzzo
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Shareholder Democracy and Shareholder Activism
2019Abstract 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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1988
Despite the increasing concentration of shares in the hands of financial institutions over the last two decades1 the small private shareholder remains an important public for many of Britain’s largest companies. Research is used by companies to understand more clearly who their shareholders are, to ascertain their expectations of the company and to ...
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Despite the increasing concentration of shares in the hands of financial institutions over the last two decades1 the small private shareholder remains an important public for many of Britain’s largest companies. Research is used by companies to understand more clearly who their shareholders are, to ascertain their expectations of the company and to ...
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2016
This chapter considers shareholders’ agreements. It discusses the advantages of a shareholders’ agreement; drafting a shareholders’ agreement; legal limits on the use of shareholders’ agreements; and enforcing the agreement.
J. Scott Slorach, Jason Ellis
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This chapter considers shareholders’ agreements. It discusses the advantages of a shareholders’ agreement; drafting a shareholders’ agreement; legal limits on the use of shareholders’ agreements; and enforcing the agreement.
J. Scott Slorach, Jason Ellis
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Shareholders as Proxies: The Contours of Shareholder Democracy
2017"All the stockholders act like a flock of sheep."We put a man on the moon, but we can't manage the consequences of shareholder democracy."2I. IntroductionOn March 31, 2006, just as the spring annual meeting season began, The Corporate Library released a study of eleven of the largest U.S.
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Do Shareholder Tender Agreements inform or expropriate shareholders?
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2006By 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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