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COVID-19 and Japanese shareholder activism: brief respite for Japan's self-healing concrete. [PDF]

Asian Bus Manag, 2020
Yoshikawa T, Chua G.
europepmc   +1 more source

FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis, Dimitri Panou, Richard Maaranen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Determinants of ESG Ratings: Rater Ownership Matters

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether and how common ownership affects Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings—an important research question given the increasing use of these ratings in investment decisions and corporate evaluations. We find that companies with major shareholders in common with the rating agency (“sister firms”) tend to receive ...
Dragon Yongjun Tang, Jiali Yan, Yaqiong Yao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When the Former CEO Acts as Board Chair: Does This Matter to Debt Policy and Risk of Default?

Abacus, EarlyView.
This paper scrutinizes the interconnections between debt capital raising, firm risk of default, and the presence of a former CEO who now serves as a board chairperson, referred to as the Chair‐Former‐CEO (CFC). Employing a sample of the largest non‐financial firms within the US S&P 100 from 2002 to 2018, our results reveal that, when compared to their ...
Vu Quang Trinh, Aly Salama, Basil Al‐Najjar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
wiley   +1 more source

Norms Over Threats and Trends: A Managerial Perspective on the Role of Normative Pressures in Motivating Sustainable Strategies and Positive Outcomes

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effectiveness of institutional pressures in motivating two contrasting sustainability strategies, symbolic and substantive, and their subsequent impact on the triple bottom line (TBL). Using data from 388 US supply chain professionals, this research applies institutional theory and structural equation modeling to ...
Alina Marculetiu, Cigdem Ataseven, Injazz J. Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does ex-ante disclosure of regulatory information really backfire?

China Journal of Accounting Research
Regulatory information disclosure is an important measure to enhance government transparency and law enforcement credibility. Studies mainly focus on ex-post disclosure and affirm its positive effects.
Huiyang Zhou, Jian Chu
doaj   +1 more source

Further Considerations Needed to Assess Reshoring: Its Impact on Host Communities

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After several decades of offshoring, reshoring is becoming an emergent strategy in many countries and industries. Both governments compel firms to reshore their production to their home countries as firms find, in some cases, that it is more profitable for them to do so.
Fernando Merino
wiley   +1 more source

SHAREHOLDERS ACTIVISM

InterEULawEast : Journal for the international and european law, economics and market integrations, 2014
The author in text analyses the European Commission’s Proposal of Shareholders Rights Directive (hereinafter as: Directive 2007/36/EC) revision. A dynamic development of European company law demands amendment and improvement in existing legal frame.
openaire   +2 more sources

Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Two different theoretical perspectives concerning technology and the future of work are examined. One is linked to mainstream economics, whereas the other is associated with critical (‘post‐work’) discourse. Ideas about work—its nature and impacts on well‐being—matter in both perspectives.
David A. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source