Corporate Social Responsibility in a Corporate Governance Framework [PDF]
We argue that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) may affect the agency relationship inside a firm. We analyze how CSR and the threat of stakeholder activism influence effort of manager and shareholder, and describe how CSR may arise endogenously in ...
Linda A. Toolsema, Yohanes E. Riyanto
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Missing the Forest for the Trees: A New Approach to Shareholder Activism [PDF]
, 2014 Shareholder activism has dominated corporate governance literature for the last decade. However, despite the abundance of research focusing on specific manifestations of activism, there is a dearth of literature tackling share-holder activism as a whole.
Nili, Yaron
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Emerging aspects of shareholder activism : a dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctoral of Philosophy in Finance at Massey University, Manawatu (Turitea), New Zealand [PDF]
, 2021 This thesis consists of one comprehensive literature review and two empirical essays on shareholder activism. The literature review on shareholder activism provides a brief discussion on shareholder activism’s evolution, highlighting the potential of ...
Hafeez, Bilal
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Social Activism Through Shareholder Activism [PDF]
, 2019 This article is based on the author\u27s keynote address at the 2018-2019 Lara D. Gass Annual Symposium: Civil Rights and Shareholder Activism at Washington and Lee University School of Law, February 15, 2019.
Fairfax, Lisa M.
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De Facto Control: Applying Game Theory to the Law on Corporate Nationality [PDF]
Philippine Law Journal, Vol. 90 Issue No. 2 (2017), 2017 One unexamined assumption in foreign ownership regulation is the notion that majority voting rights translate to 'effective control'. This assumption is so deeply entrenched in foreign investments law that possession of majority voting rights can determine the nationality of a corporation and its capacity to engage in partially nationalized economic ...
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Shareholder activism in Japan: social pressure, private cost and organized crime [PDF]
Prior research provides mixed results on the capacity of American shareholder activists to improve managerial behavior. In Japan, however, alternative means of external control (e.g. take-over, litigations) are not as effective as in the U.S. Challenging
Hilary, Gilles, Oshika, Tomoki
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Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund [PDF]
, 2010 Marco Becht +3 more
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From Apathy to Activism: The Emergence, Impact, and Future of Shareholder Activism as the New Corporate Governance Norm [PDF]
, 2019 The conventional and long-held view that public company shareholders are, and should be, rationally apathetic is waning. Today, public company shareholders are active.
Fairfax, Lisa M.
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Shareholder Activism as a Corrective Mechanism in Corporate Governance [PDF]
, 2014 Under an Arrowian framework, centralized authority and management provides for optimal decision making in large organizations. However, Kenneth Arrow also recognized that other elements within the organization, beyond the central authority, occasionally ...
Rose, Paul, Sharfman, Bernard S.
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Focus on: Mobilizing Investors Networks behind Shareholder Activism in France
, 2012 International audienceThis paper makes three contributions: first, it analyses and conceptualizes professional shareholder activists and their use of international investor networks to engage French companies. We explain the changes in French legislation
Gates, Stephen, Girard, Carine
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