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investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally … bar shareholders from claiming for reflective loss – loss that arises from injury to "their" company (such as a decline in … the value of shares). The claim for the loss belongs to the injured company and not to its shareholders. In contrast …
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. Shareholder claims are permitted for direct injury to shareholder rights (such as voting rights). But shareholders generally …
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decision-making concerning shareholders and stakeholders. In a sample comprising more than nine hundred directors originating … a principled, quasi-ideological stance towards shareholders and stakeholders, called shareholderism, on which they vary …
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suggesting a default template of rules. Ultimately, the matter of protection was one for the corporation and its shareholders …
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suggesting a default template of rules. Ultimately, the matter of protection was one for the corporation and its shareholders …
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institutional shareholders should play in governing the corporation. In the US this discussion is around the idea of shareholder …
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How different are common law and civil law legal systems? This question has occupied legal scholars for a long time. In the last 15 years the common law/civil law divide has also become a major theme in research of economics, finance and business. In many studies it is alleged that English legal...
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Using a sample of non-U.S. firms from 43 countries, we investigate whether laws and regulations as well as votes cast by U.S. institutional investors are consistent with an effective shareholder voting process. We find that laws and regulations allow for meaningful votes to be cast as...
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Shareholders call for more attention after the crisis: confidence will have to be restored to convince them to … recapitalise the financial firms. Five topics are addressed here: shareholders should be able to effectively exercise their rights … calling on more stable, active institutional shareholders, an objective that may be at odds with “one share, one vote …
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The role and position of shareholders within a listed public company has been a subject of debate on both the national … conferred upon shareholders in such a company and, consequently, on the active or effective exercise of those rights by the same … shareholders. In this contribution, we focus on one particular core concept, namely the right that is conferred upon shareholders …
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