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to an influential argument, activist shareholders can offer a solution by supplying large investment managers with … shareholders – have different visions of stewardship with little scope for interactions. For large investment managers, general …
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There is a heated debate on shareholder versus stakeholder governance. The stakeholder view recognises that companies have broader responsibilities to society than just making profit. But the lack of an integrated measure makes it difficult to hold management accountable against multiple goals....
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Managerial resistance precludes half of shareholder-initiated proposals from reaching the ballot stage. I construct a novel dataset of excluded and withdrawn proposals from the Securities and Exchange Commission's responses to managers' exclusion requests. An examination of announcement returns...
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Few can argue with the notion that corporations should at least consider corporate social responsibility (CSR) to better understand the impact of their operations on society. However, recent empirical tests suggest CSR has an ambiguous impact on firm performance. To shed new light on this...
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This study uses two distinct quasi-natural experiments to examine the effect of institutional shareholders on corporate … reconstitutions improves portfolio firms' CSR performance. We then find that firms have lower CSR ratings when shareholders are … financially material. Furthermore, we show that institutional shareholders influence CSR through CSR-related proposals. Overall …
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We investigate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and firm value effects of more than 7,000 shareholder proposals submitted between 2006–2020. Using propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences setting, the results indicate that firms that receive an ESG- or...
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This research examines the relation between shareholder litigation and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Exploiting exogenous changes in shareholder litigation rights following the staggered adoption of universal demand laws by U.S. states and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling on...
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Recent literature suggests that some socially responsible corporate actions benefit shareholders while others do not … environmental performance as the proxy for CSR. We show that family firms are more responsible to shareholders than non-family firms … diverge, i.e., when it comes to making environmental investments that might benefit society but do not benefit shareholders …
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policies institutional investors often say they are long-term shareholders, socially responsible investors, or stakeholder …
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