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Shareholder activism on sustainability issues has become increasingly prevalent over the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental and social...
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This paper outlines the ethical case put forward by Catholic Social Thought (“CST”) for giving employees a role in corporate governance and some type of ownership interest in the corporations that they work for. It explains the ethical significance of the corporation and corporate...
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Purpose - The main aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of corporate governance and the cost of capital in shipping industry. The present study grasps on a doctoral thesis aiming to analyze the above developments in the shipping industry in general and mostly in the Greek owed shipping...
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between corporate governance, corruption and disclosure of forward-looking information in listed firms in two African countries, Botswana and Ghana.Design/methodology/approach – The study uses 174 firm-year observations between the period...
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This research examines the association between corporate sustainability reporting ESG score and firm's financial performance, Executive compensation. Empirical analysis is performed on firms listed on S&P 500 and S&P/TSX firms. Regression method is used to test the impact of ESG score of a year...
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We show that the sale of state owned firms in dictatorships can help political corporations to emerge and persist over time. Using new data, we characterize Pinochet's privatizations in Chile and find that some firms were sold underpriced to politically connected buyers. These newly private...
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The German Bundestag has adopted the Small Investor Protection Act on 23 April 2015, which will enter into force in the coming weeks. By this Act the German legislator establishes for the first time – among other things – a regulation of the German crowdfunding market. This article describes...
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