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We study shareholder support for corporate board nominees before and after the 2018 California gender quota. Pre-quota, new female nominees received greater support than new male nominees, consistent with women being held to a higher standard. Post-quota, as the number of women increased,...
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The article proposes the implementation of the RIVI (“Retail Investor Voting Instructions”) to mobilize retail investors to vote in corporate elections. The author argues that current retail-investor voting has an adverse effect on our capital markets because it is uninformed. In this...
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Given the board of directors’ oversight role with respect to internal control systems, we examine how disclosures of internal control material weaknesses under Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 affect shareholders’ voting in director elections. We find that the presence of material weaknesses is...
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Currently, there is much debate about the role that non-investor stakeholder interests play in the governance of public companies. Critics argue that greater attention should be paid to the interest of stakeholders and that by investing in initiatives and programs to promote their interests,...
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We empirically examine the effect of citizen activism at the annual general shareholder meetings of listed companies related to gender diversity in corporate boards. Based on a sample of 231 general shareholders meetings that took place over a period of seven years between 2013 to 2019, we find...
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This study investigated companies publicly listed in Taiwan from 2002 to 2010 to examine whether independent directors improve the quality of earnings and analyzed whether the control rights of a controlling shareholder mitigate the impact of independent directors on earnings quality. Empirical...
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We investigate the effects of monitoring by boards of directors and institutional shareholders on merger and acquisition (M&A) performance extremeness using a sample of M&A deals from 1997-2006. Both governance research and legal reforms generally have espoused a ‘raise all boats' view of...
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