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Nonbinding Voting for Shareholder Proposals

Levit, Doron - 2014

nonbinding since management has the authority to reject the proposal even if it received majority support from shareholders. We … nonbinding voting only if conflicts of interest between shareholders and the activist are substantial …

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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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Norms, Advice Networks and Joint Economic Governance : The Case of Conflicts among Shareholders at the Commercial Court of Paris

Tubaro, Paola; Mounier, Lise; Lazega, Emmanuel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

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Building Trust in Corporations

Turnbull, Shann - 2003

constitutions that create a division of power among shareholders with corporate officers being elected in different ways. In … addition, shareholders would constitutionally provide employees, customers and suppliers, including the host community, voice …

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Boardroom Brawls : An Empirical Analysis of Disputes Involving Directors

Agrawal, Anup - 2017

We investigate the internal workings of U.S. corporate governance with a hand-collected dataset of director resignations that are related to power struggles within the board. About two-thirds of the conflicts arise because of how board members interact in carrying out their duties, while most of...

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Why Anglo Corporations Should Not Be Trusted : And How They Could Be Trusted

Turnbull, Shann - 2004

This paper identifies eight reasons why it is rational not to trust large complex Anglo corporations and how these reasons could be removed. Two reasons are that directors are overloaded with information but also lack information independent of management to evaluate management and the business....

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Network Governance

Turnbull, Shann - 2004

capability to act to protect themselves, shareholders and stakeholders. Nor do directors have a systemic process to discover if … their trust in management might be misplaced. Shareholders have the power to correct these problems by changing corporate …

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Boardroom Brawls : An Empirical Analysis of Disputes Involving Directors

Agrawal, Anup - 2008

This paper examines the nature, incidence, and consequences of boardroom disputes. Using a novel, hand-collected dataset of internal disputes in publicly traded U.S. companies over 1995-2006 that come to light upon the occurrence of director resignations, we find that such conflicts typically...

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Invigorating Capitalism

Turnbull, Shann - 2003

This paper identifies some policy options for encouraging widely dispersed shareholders and/or their fiduciary agents … to become more effective in controlling corporations. Even though institutional shareholders have a fiduciary … paper puts forward three ways to invigorate the voice of all shareholders to control corporations that could be introduced …

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Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Fried, Jesse; Walker, David I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper develops an account of the role and significance of managerial power and rent extraction in executive compensation. Under the optimal contracting approach to executive compensation, which has dominated academic research on the subject, pay arrangements are set by a board of directors...

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