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Strong forms of the stakeholder model of corporate governance hold that, in making business decisions, directors should … for shareholders even in the long-term. This article makes four main points about the stakeholder model. First, although … these claims for the benefit of shareholders; hence, business decisions made under a stakeholder model will often transfer …
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For those concerned with nature and role of the business firm in economy and society, these are challenging times. Past and ongoing financial crises and scandals have focused attention on the system of regulation, governance and disclosure in a way many may never have imagined and few welcomed....
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Social benefit entities, such as benefit corporations and low-profit limited liability companies (or L3Cs) were designed to support and encourage socially responsible business. Unfortunately, instead of helping, the emergence of social enterprise enabling statutes and the demise of director...
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I analyze the current prevalence of the concept of shareholder value maximization in Brazil from the normative, case law, and managerial perspectives. On the normative aspect, I show that Brazilian corporate law is much closer to a balanced and socially oriented perspective for the role of...
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Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of investors as stewards of the commons. While companies are increasingly...
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The debate about the compensation of executives and directors is a discussion about incentives and agency costs. This article analyzes basic tools to reduce agency costs and also assesses the ongoing debate about the future regulation of the compensation of executives and directors. It draws...
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Purpose: This research aims to explore the link between corporate governance mechanism and stock price crash risk under the complementary role of IFRS adoption in Pakistan.Design/methodology/approach: Data has been extracted from the financial statements of 155 non-financial firms listed in PSX...
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determinist – in stakeholder research. We argue that three elements – managerial discretion, stakeholder orientation and nexus …
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This paper explores the relationship between attitudes to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the cultural dimensions of business activity identified by Hofstede and Hofstede (2005) using a sample of nearly 90,000 stakeholders drawn from 28 countries. We develop five general propositions...
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