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Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private US companies, we find that employee beliefs about their firm's purpose is weaker in public companies. This difference is most pronounced within the salaried middle and hourly ranks, rather than...
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Shareholder say-on-pay votes allow institutional investors to influence the incentives of managers and, consequently, corporate behaviour. Surprisingly, the preferences of investors on executive compensation have been largely overlooked in the ongoing debates on sustainable corporate behaviour....
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Corporate social responsibility has been increasingly regarded as an important firm non-market strategy that impact the overall firm's performance and how its viewed by the society, leading to an intensified research focusing on its antecedents, processes, and outcomes. As the most influential...
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In the last three decades, corporate governance and reporting have been confronted to a drift toward shareholders … and the business firm, based upon the distinction between shareholders' income and equity from income and equity to the …, accounting systems might enable corporate Ponzi schemes (through the corporate shield) by insiders (either executive management …
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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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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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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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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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, remain robust when controlling for firm-specific factors as well as shifts in investor sentiment. From a risk management …
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policy engagement to fulfill their fiduciary duty, improve investment risk management, and create an enabling environment for …
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