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Voting Power and Shareholder Activism: A Study of Swedish Shareholder Meetings

Corporate Governance: an International Review, 2010
ABSTRACTManuscript Type: EmpiricalResearch Question/Issue: This paper analyses the impact of voting power on shareholder activism using unique data on activism at Swedish shareholder meetings. We hypothesize that there is a positive relationship between shareholder activism and a measure of the largest shareholder's sensitivity to increased ...
Thomas Poulsen   +2 more
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Shareholder Activism

Journal of Management, 2014
Maria Goranova, Lori Verstegen Ryan
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Shareholder Activism in Banking [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN 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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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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Responsible Ownership, Shareholder Value and the New Shareholder Activism [PDF]

open access: possibleCompetition & Change, 2007
In this paper we use interview data to explore the ‘new shareholder activism’ of mainstream UK institutional investor We describe contemporary practices of corporate governance monitoring and engagement and how they vary across institutions, and explore the motivations behind them Existing studies of shareholder activism mainly assume that it is ...
John Roberts   +3 more
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Shareholder Activism

Journal of Management, 2013
Shareholder activism has become a dynamic institutional force, and its associated, rapidly increasing body of scholarly literature affects numerous disciplines within the organization science academy. In addition to equivocal results concerning the impact of shareholder activism on corporate outcomes, the separation of prior research into financial ...
Maria Goranova, Lori Verstegen Ryan
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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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