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Responsible ownership, shareholder value and the new shareholder activism

Roberts, John; Sanderson, Paul; Hendry, John; Barker, … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

In this paper we use interview data to explore the new shareholder activism of mainstream UK institutional investors. We describe contemporary practices of corporate governance monitoring and engagement and how they vary across institutions, and explore the motivations behind them. Existing...

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Owners, traders and providers of capital: the multiple faces of institutional investors

Roberts, John; Sanderson, Paul; Hendry, John; Barker, … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

We draw on a series of in-depth interviews with senior fund managers and senior company executives to explore how …

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Learning from Enron

Deakin, Simon; Konzelmann, Suzanne J. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003

This essay argues that the Enron affair has been misunderstood as a failure of monitoring, with adverse consequences for the drafting of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Higgs report. Where Enron’s board failed was in underestimating the risks that were inherent in the company’s business plan...

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Corporate Governance and Financial Crisis in the Long Run

Deakin, S. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

Prior to the global financial crisis which began in 2007, corporate governance reforms of the preceding thirty years had promoted a shareholder-value based model of management for which there was little historical precedent. The underlying legal model of the firm retained a vestigial sense of...

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Gender pay inequity: a question for corporate social responsibility?

Browne, Jude - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

This paper examines the extent to which contemporary business-led approaches designed to maximize female human capital are effective in reducing the gendered pay gap in the British labour market. In particular it asks whether the approach outlined by the latest Cabinet Office Review on women's...

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Varieties of Capitalism and the Learning Firm: Corporate Governance and Labour in the Context of Contemporary Developments in European and German Company Law

Zumbansen, Peer - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007

Research in corporate governance and in labour law has been characterized by a disjuncture in the way that scholars in each field are addressing organizational questions related to the business enterprise. While labour has eventually begun to shift perspectives from aspirations to direct...

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The Evolution of the Corporation: Organization, Finance, Knowledge and Corporate Social Responsibility

Zumbansen, Peer - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2008

This paper, which selectively focuses on the contested concept of Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR], forms part of a larger research project on the evolution of corporate governance. This research posits the evolution of corporate governance along three historical paradigms: first, the...

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Corporate Governance, The Limits of Rationality and Proceduralisation

J, Paterson - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

stakeholder model of the company, is that even quite basic questions posed at the outset remain to be answered. Thus, in the case … of an adequate account of why contracts are incomplete. Similarly, in stakeholder theorising, the pressing problem has … been identified as one of detailing the rights and responsibilities of the various stakeholders and of suggesting how …

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Multinationals in Developing Communities: how EU Multinationals build Social Capital in Poland

Jones, Ian W.; Nyland, Chris M.; Pollitt, Michael G. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

capital. We look at the self-reporting of social engagement in Poland by European multinational firms with operations there …

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How do Multinationals Build Social Capital? Evidence from South Africa.

Jones, I; Nyland, C.M; Pollitt, M.G - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

This paper looks at the self-reporting of social engagement by multinational firms in South Africa, developing previous …

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