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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 in Indonesia: revisiting shareholder rights implementation and future challenges

International Journal of Law and Management, 2021
Purpose This paper aims to elaborate on the extent to which the Indonesian legal framework has provided room for shareholder activism and the extent to which shareholder activism has been implemented in Indonesia.
Ulya Yasmine Prisandani
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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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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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Clustered shareholder activism

Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2019
AbstractResearch 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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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 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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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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The dynamic relation between board gender diversity and firm performance: the moderating role of shareholder activism

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2023
Fujiao Xie, Ying Guo, Shirley J. Daniel, Yuanyang Liu   +3 more
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