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Active Firms and Active Shareholders: Corporate Political Activity and Shareholder Proposals

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
This 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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Shareholder Activism

2017
This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on shareholder activism, including: The impact of union activism on corporate outcomes, the performance of socially responsible investment funds, the impact of activist hedge funds on effecting change, and the impact of activist hedge funds on short- and long-term corporate ...
Larcker, David F., Brian Tayan
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Shareholder Democracy and Shareholder Activism

2019
Abstract 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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VOTING POWER AND SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2010
The article discusses the development of a voting power theory that is applied to a unique data set on Swedish shareholder meetings. The authors hypothesize that there is a positive relationship between shareholder activism and the largest shareholder's sensitivity to greater participation by small shareholders.
Strand, Therese, Poulsen, Thomas, Thomsen, Steen   +2 more
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Shareholder activism and voluntary disclosure

Review of Accounting Studies, 2015
We examine the relation between shareholder activism and voluntary disclosure. An important consequence of voluntary disclosure is less adverse selection in the capital markets. One class of traders that finds less adverse selection unprofitable is activist investors who target mispriced firms whose valuations they can improve.
Thomas Bourveau, Jordan Schoenfeld
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The New Shareholder Activism

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
In this paper, we begin by documenting the successes and failures of institutional shareholder activism in recent years in section I. We find that overall institutional activism has been of marginal importance at targeted firms. We then move on in section II to contrast institutional investor activism with the much more aggressive recent activism of ...
Frank Partnoy, Randall S. Thomas
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Environmental Shareholder Activism

Organization & Environment, 2015
Status and reputation have recently gained traction as theoretical mechanisms that, as important parts of decision processes, influence and explain firm behavior. In this study, we examine how environmentally concerned shareholder activists vary in their status and reputation, and how these differences affect firm responsiveness to their concerns.
Elise Perrault, Cynthia Clark
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Shareholder Activism

2015
This chapter examines the phenomenon of shareholder activism within the context of corporate governance and its place in today’s debate on shareholders and shareholder empowerment. It first reviews the concept of shareholder activism and emphasizes the importance of the shareholder structure under which it operates before turning to the historical ...
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Shareholder Activism and Alienation

Current Anthropology, 2011
This 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 ...
Marina Welker, David Wood
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SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM

Maximilian Klingebiel, Norbert Klingebiel, Julia Lackmann   +2 more
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