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Galvanising shareholder activism: a prerequisite for effective corporate governance and accountability in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2008 Shareholder activism has been largely neglected in the few available studies on corporate governance in sub Saharan Africa. Following the recent challenges posed by the Cadbury Nigeria Plc, this paper examines shareholder activism in an evolving ...
Amao, Olufemi, Amaeshi, Kenneth
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Institutional proxy voting in South Africa: Process, outcomes and impact
South African Journal of Business Management, 2015 This study investigated the nature of institutional shareholder activism in South Africa with a particular focus on proxy voting as a public form of shareholder discontent.
S. Viviers, E. vdM. Smit
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2022 During times of distress, companies are compelled to reassess operational policies and reengineer strategic formulations to discern value maximising uses for limited resources.
Navitha Singh Sewpersadh
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CSR and Firm Risk: Is Shareholder Activism a Double-Edged Sword?
Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2022 Few can argue with the notion that corporations should at least consider corporate social responsibility (CSR) to better understand the impact of their operations on society.
Konstantinos Bozos +2 more
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The Politics of Shareholder Activism in Nigeria [PDF]
Journal of Business Ethics, 2011 Shareholder activism has become a force for good in the extant corporate governance literature. In this article, we present a case study of Nigeria to show how shareholder activism, as a corporate governance mechanism, can constitute a space for unhealthy politics and turbulent politicking, which is a reflection of the country’s brand of politics. As a
Adegbite, Emmanuel +2 more
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Individual shareholder activism in South Africa: The case of Theo Botha
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2016 Shareholder activists play a key role in monitoring managerial behaviour. This study was undertaken given the paucity of research on the shareholder activism as practised by individual shareholders. Accordingly, the motives, modus operandi and sources of
Suzette Viviers
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Cross-shareholding networks and stock price synchronicity: Evidence from China [PDF]
International Journal of Finance & Economics 26 (1), 914-948
(2021), 2019 This paper investigates the effect of cross-shareholding on stock price synchronicity, as a measure of price informativeness, of the listed firms in the Chinese stock market. We gauge firms' levels of cross-shareholdings in terms of centrality in the cross-shareholding network.
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The Shared Cost of Pursuing Shareholder Value [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We propose a portable framework to infer shareholders' preferences, their influence on firms' prosocial decisions, and the resulting economic consequences for firms and marginalized shareholders. Using quasi-experimental variations tied to media coverage of firms' annual general meetings, we find that shareholders support costly prosocial actions, such
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Shareholder Rights and Shareholder Activism: The Role of the General Meeting of Shareholders [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 An appropriate division of power between the board of directors and shareholders of the company is quintessential for the success of the company. However, for a long period of time the monitoring powers of the shareholders were limited. Recently, both the European and the national member states’ legislators refined corporate law and allocated more ...
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2016 This study deals with the major determinants of company shareholder activism investigated with according to a set of SBF 120 listed firms. Based on a sample of 77 companies, observed over the period 2008–2012, we are led to conclude that some firm ...
Siala Bouaziz Souha, Jarboui Anis
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