Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study filer identities and voting outcomes of Canadian shareholder proposals and their impact on shareholders' wealth during the period from 2001 to 2008. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 762 Canadian shareholder proposals and related...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study filer identities and voting outcomes of Canadian shareholder proposals and their impact on shareholders' wealth during the period from 2001 to 2008. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 762 Canadian shareholder proposals and related...

Background: Entrepreneur was the key factor of venture capital-backed star-ups, and control rights serve as an important incentive to attract entrepreneurs' human capital investment.Objective: In this article, we investigate the ways in which the specificity and exclusiveness of entrepreneurs'...

This study explicates venture capitalists’ (VCs) successful exits from joint ventures based on their matching relationship with start-ups. Analysing data from China’s VC market, we find that balanced matching between similarly ranked VCs and start-ups promotes VCs’ successful exits, while...