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Gender quotas and support for women in board elections

Gertsberg, Marina; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Pagel, Michaela - 2022

We study shareholder support for corporate board nominees before and after the 2018 California gender quota. Pre-quota, new female nominees received greater support than new male nominees, consistent with women being held to a higher standard. Post-quota, as the number of women increased,...

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Shareholder Democracy and the Curious Turn Toward Board Primacy

Hayden, Grant M. - 2010

Corporate law is consumed with a debate over shareholder democracy. The conventional wisdom counsels that shareholders … increased board discretion. These theorists argue that shareholders need to delegate their authority in order to provide the … classical economic underpinnings of corporate law have been destabilized by a growing recognition that shareholders are not a …

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The Dividing Line Between Shareholder Democracy and Board Autonomy : Inherent Conflicts of Interest as Normative Criterion

Cools, Sofie - 2020

In the past decades, shareholder democracy has been the center of attention in corporate governance research. Academic commentators have lined up on both sides of the debate and have fiercely advocated either increasing or limiting shareholder power. Yet, the scope of many of these arguments has...

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Do independent directors restrain controlling shareholders' tunneling? : evidence from a natural experiment in China

Gong, Min; Wang, Yanan; Yang, Xiandong - In: Economic modelling 94 (2021), pp. 548-559

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Reformed and engaged boards - not activist shareholders

Ingley, Coral; Rennie, Morina; Mueller, Jens; Cocks, Graham - In: World review of entrepreneurship, management and … 7 (2011) 3, pp. 302-329

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Proliferation of corporate governance codes in the backdrop of divergent ownership structures

Varottil, Umakanth - In: Competition & change : the journal of global business … 24 (2020) 5, pp. 471-492

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Ultimate parent's board reform and controlling shareholder entrenchment : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Cai, Guilong; Xie, Sujuan; Xu, Yue; Zeng, Yamin; Zhang, … - In: Emerging markets review 38 (2019), pp. 389-403

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The impact of institutional shareholdings on price limits

Wu, Manhwa; Huang, Paoyu; Ni, Yensen - In: Asia Pacific financial markets 27 (2020) 3, pp. 343-361

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Board attributes and shareholder wealth in mergers and acquisitions : a survey of the literature

Redor, Etienne - In: Journal of management & governance 20 (2016) 4, pp. 789-821

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Staggered boards and shareholder value : a reply to Amihud and Stoyanov

Cohen, Alma; Wang, Charles C. Y. - 2015

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