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Reflection on the blockchain application in Chinese public health financial institutions governance [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences
This paper identifies three aspects of challenges in blockchain practices through textual analysis and case studies in the governance of Chinese public health financial institutions.
Ma Kailiang
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Reputational Risk: An Investigation Into How Environmental Failures Drive Stock Price Crashes

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study examines the relationship between stock price crashes and firm environment reputational risk. Using a large sample of US listed firms, covering a time span from 2007 to 2021, we test the effect of environmental reputation risk on three measures for the stock price crash risk (NEGCSK, DRUV, and CRASH).
Man Dang, Premkanth Puwanenthiren, Edward Jones, Hoang Long Phan, Abdelhafid Benamraoui   +4 more
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Communication of Business‐Nonprofit Collaborations and Environmental Legitimacy: Exploratory Insights From Italian Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Collaborations with nonprofits can enhance firms' legitimacy, yet the relationship between their communication and corporate environmental legitimacy remains poorly understood. Furthermore, research lacks an analysis of the communication of business‐nonprofit collaborations through multiple actors' perspectives.
Andrea Rizzuni, Daniel Lundgaard, Maria Alejandra Torres‐Cuello, Steen Vallentin   +3 more
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The value of shareholder environmental activism: Case of Engine No. 1

International Review of Economics & Finance
We examine the short- and long-term market reactions toward S&P 500 index constituents surrounding a pivotal event on May 26, 2021, when Engine No. 1, an environmental activist investment firm, successfully secured board seats at ExxonMobil, a leading ...
Jennifer Brodmann, Ashrafee Hossain, Abdullah-Al Masum, Meghna Singhvi   +3 more
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher, Darlene Himick, Leigh Ellen Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate governance criteria as applied in private equity investments

South African Journal of Business Management, 2005
Ineffective governance has often formed a backdrop to corporate failure with the resultant negative impact on stakeholders. In the field of private equity, investors have consistently received financial returns that outperform those of listed equities ...
R. Millson, M. Ward
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Does Institutional Ownership Structure Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? An In‐Depth Study of Corporations Social Responsibility of European‐Listed Firms

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Motivated by the growing attention and concerns surrounding climate change and the potential role of institutional investors' ownership concentration (OC) in reducing corporations' greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, this article explores the relationship between various forms of institutional ownership and firms' GHG emission intensity. To do so,
Daniele Giordino, Elisa Ballesio, Aradhana Galgotia, Laura Broccardo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms to promote board gender diversity in South Africa

Acta Commercii, 2017
Research purpose: Board gender diversity is gaining increasing attention globally and in South Africa. Although more women are serving on the boards of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), they only represent approximately one-fifth
Suzette Viviers, Nadia Mans-Kemp, Rebecca Fawcett   +2 more
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Soft Shareholder Activism [PDF]

The Review of Financial Studies, 2012
This paper studies communications between investors and firms as a form of corporate governance. Activist investors cannot force their ideas on companies; they must persuade the board or other shareholders that implementing these ideas is beneficial to the firm.
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Shareholder Activism through Proxy Proposals: The European Perspective [PDF]

European Financial Management, 2009
Abstract This paper is the first to investigate the corporate governance role of shareholder‐initiated proxy proposals in European firms. Proposal submissions in Europe remain infrequent compared to the USA, especially in Continental Europe. In the UK proposals typically relate to a proxy contest seeking board changes, while in Continental Europe they ...
Cziraki, P., Renneboog, L.D.R., Szilagyi, P.G.   +2 more
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