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This study investigates the transition from being a listed company with a dispersed ownership structure to being a privately held company with a concentrated ownership structure. We consider a sample of private equity backed portfolio companies to evaluate the consequences of the corporate...
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We study the global corporate engagement activities of a large UK-based asset manager from 2006 to 2011. Using proprietary data on these activities, we find that corporate engagements “behind-the-scenes” are frequently used to change corporate behavior. We show that geography is an important...
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culture: it increases results-orientation but decreases customer-focus, integrity, and collaboration. Shareholders initially …-induced changes in culture are not in shareholders' long-term interests since firm value declines by 1.4% through this channel …
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moral foundation for shareholders' responsibility and describes how the responsibility of shareholding is diffused along the …
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We study whether shareholder scrutiny affects CEO pay. Our identification strategy exploits the fact that recent "say-on-pay" regulation allowed firms to hold votes every two or three years. Depending on their voting frequency, firms experience alternating years where scrutiny on compensation...
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that activist investors cannot force their ideas on companies; they must persuade the board or other shareholders that …
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shareholders who reveal a corresponding preference for social or environmental performance, as proxied by their quantifiable …
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Ease of coordination can enable diffuse shareholders to play a more effective role in corporate governance and thereby … coordination, I find evidence that ease of coordination among institutional shareholders is positively associated with firm value … coordination improves firm value by enhancing the governance role provided by shareholders …
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When corporations inflict injuries in the course of business, shareholders wielding ESG principles can, and now … and concerns purpose--the firm should be managed for the shareholders’ financial benefit. The second norm is procedural … and concerns power--the shareholders should have the power to tell managers how to run the firm. The two norms, once put …
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