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Understanding the rise and decline of shareholder activism in South Korea: the explanatory advantages of the theory of Modes of Exchange [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Abstract: The extent to which Korea has become a full-fledged neoliberal state has been subject to debate. We argue that the recent rise and fall of shareholder activism in Korea is related to
Dalton, B, Rama, MD
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The Financial Crisis between the XXth and XXIst Centuries and the Corporate Governance [PDF]

open access: yesTheoretical and Applied Economics, 2006
The various companies, originating in different countries, have been approaching the corporate governance issues starting early in time. Nowdays, these issues have changed in dimension due to an exponential growth of the financial globalization, the ...
Niculae Feleaga
doaj   +1 more source

The Macroeconomic Effects of Corporate Tax Reforms [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
This paper extends a standard general equilibrium framework with a corporate tax code featuring two key elements: tax depreciation policy and the distinction between c-corporations and pass-through businesses. In the model, the stimulative effect of a tax rate cut on c-corporations is smaller when tax depreciation policy is accelerated, and is further ...
arxiv  

Women in Shareholder Activism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Even a cursory review of the history of American environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) shareholder activism reveals the presence of women leaders.
Haan, Sarah C.
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Shareholder Activism through the Proxy Process [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This paper provides evidence on the corporate governance role of shareholder-initiated proxy proposals. Previous studies debate over whether activists use proxy proposals to discipline firms or to simply advance their self-serving agendas, and whether proxy proposals are effective at all in addressing governance concerns.
Luc Renneboog, Peter G. Szilagyi
openaire   +2 more sources

Determinants of shareholder activism in emerging markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The present study aims at investigating the determinants of shareholder activism in emerging markets based on Institutional Theory, Resource-Based View and Austrian economics. This dissertation, which is part of the researcher‟s doctoral project, reviews
Yamahaki, C., Yamahaki, C.
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Corporate governance criteria as applied in private equity investments

open access: yesSouth 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
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanisms to promote board gender diversity in South Africa

open access: yesActa 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   +2 more
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To sell or not to sell? Behavior of shareholders during price collapses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
It is a common belief that the behavior of shareholders depends upon the direction of price fluctuations: if prices increase they buy, if prices decrease they sell. That belief, however, is more based on ``common sense'' than on facts. In this paper we present evidence for a specific class of shareholders which shows that the actual behavior of ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Australian Trade Unions as Shareholder Activists: The Rocky Path Towards Corporate Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This article examines the use of the "100 shareholder rule' by trade unions to address the common concerns ofworkers and shareholders such as the work safety perfonnance of corporations.
Rawling, MJ
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