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The problem of managerial agency costs dominates debates in corporate law. Many leading scholars advocate reforms that would reduce agency costs by forcing firms to allocate more control to shareholders. Such proposals disregard the costs that shareholders avoid by delegating control to managers...
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Minority shareholdings have been on the regulatory agenda of competition authorities for some time. Recent empirical studies, however, draw attention to a new, thought provoking theory of harm: common ownership by institutional investors holding small, parallel equity positions in several...
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We investigate the connection between corporate governance system configurations and the role of intermediaries in the respective systems from a informational perspective. Building on the economics of information we show that it is meaningful to distinguish between internalisation and...
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system would clearly differ from what is advocated by proponents of a stakeholder approach, as it would limit the rights of …
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A fast-growing legal literature commenting on a set of empirical papers alleging anticompetitive effects of common ownership claims that the reported effects, if true, would imply that corporate executives violate their fiduciary duty: whereas acting in the interest of common owners can help...
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Does corporate governance structure matter for firm value? We develop a model in which the allocation of control rights between shareholders and managers (“governance structure”) affects managers' incentive to invest (strong governance tightens managerial freedom and weak governance loosens...
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is here defined as a multi-stakeholder model of corporate governance and … like as authority and residual rights of control. As far as the normative point of view is concerned, multi-stakeholder …
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We consider the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and … suppliers as well as shareholders compared to shareholderoriented firms. Societies with stakeholder-oriented firms have higher … voluntarily choose to be stakeholder-oriented because this increases their value. Consumers that prefer to buy from stakeholder …
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Rationales for a stakeholder model of corporate governance are based on enlightened self-interest, moral imperative …, and/or externalities. Of these, the externalities rationale holds the most promise to justify a stakeholder focus. Recent … evidence, however, indicates that the benefits of a stakeholder focus are limited because the social costs of many corporate …
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We describe a unifying theoretical framework for stakeholder analysis, establishing a rigorous mathematical formulation …; legitimacy arises through a projection mechanism. Five attributes contributing to stakeholder salience emerge from the framework ….Three are identified with power, legitimacy, and urgency, well known from classical stakeholder theory; the remaining two …
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