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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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The Downside of Displaying Agentic Values: Evidence from Shareholder Activism
Organization science (Providence, R.I.), 2022Activist shareholders face a challenging task in preemptively identifying executives who they perceive might destroy shareholder value—before harm is done.
Mark R. DesJardine, Wei Shi
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Active Firms and Active Shareholders: Corporate Political Activity and Shareholder Proposals
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015This article reveals the positions of corporations not only as active players in politics but also as targets of activist shareholders with opposing political preferences. We examine whether a firm's political orientation, as measured by its political spending, serves as a driver of shareholder proposal submissions, one manifestation of shareholder ...
Min, Geeyoung, You, Hye Young
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Minority shareholder activism in light of the Indian companies act, 2013
International Journal of Law and Management, 2022Purpose The genesis of “shareholder activism” in the USA may be traced back to several decades, but it only evolved in India at the start of the 21st century.
Pooja Sharma, S. Sachdeva
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An Analysis of Trends in Shareholder Activism in South Africa
African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2022There has been a progressive shift in shareholder activism in South Africa as shareholder demands for greater levels of accountability, reasonable executive remuneration and disclosure and transparency are increasing.
Rehana Cassim
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Shareholder Activism in Banking [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 This paper conducts the first assessment of shareholder activism in banking and its effects on risk and performance. The focus is on the conflicts among bank shareholders, managers, and creditors (e.g., regulators, deposit insurer, taxpayers, depositors). This paper finds activism may generally be a destabilizing force, increasing bank risk-taking, but
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Journal of Management, 2021
How do firms alter their strategic actions when targeted by different types of activist shareholders? We argue that hedge fund activists threaten firms in ways that lead them to conserve resources and to scale back and simplify their strategic actions ...
Mark R. DesJardine, Wei Shi, Zhihui Sun
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How do firms alter their strategic actions when targeted by different types of activist shareholders? We argue that hedge fund activists threaten firms in ways that lead them to conserve resources and to scale back and simplify their strategic actions ...
Mark R. DesJardine, Wei Shi, Zhihui Sun
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Shareholder Activism and Alienation
Current Anthropology, 2011This article opens up the category of the shareholder, who conventionally sits as a stick figure at the heart of popular explanations for why corporations ruthlessly seek to maximize profits. Following the logic that a gift may be seen as an extension of the giver’s self, we take up the possibility that investment portfolios might be viewed as ...
David Wood, Marina Welker
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Shareholder Activism in Germany [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 Shareholder activism by hedge funds has taken hold in Germany in spite of large ownership concentration. This essay uses the example of Stada Arzneimittel AG to highlight features of activism, German style. It goes on to discuss the legal issues raised by activist campaigns at the two stages of acquiring a shareholding in the target company and ...
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Importing Activists: Determinants and Consequences of Increased Cross-border Shareholder Activism
Social Science Research Network, 2021Shareholder activism is now an important global phenomenon. We use a sample of nearly 7,000 activist shareholder campaigns across 56 countries to address two principal research questions related to the rise of activism.
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