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Private Shareholder Engagements on Material ESG Issues

Bauer, Rob; Derwall, Jeroen; Tissen, Colin - 2022

We study private shareholder engagements with 2,465 publicly listed firms from 2007 to 2020 about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. We examine to what extent private engagements address financially material ESG issues and contribute to firm performance. We find that around 75%...

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Breach of duty : power of shareholders to ratify directors fraudulent dealings

Nwafor, Anthony O.; Nwafor, Gloria C. - In: Corporate board : role, duties & composition; … 10 (2014) 2, pp. 32-45

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Forty proposals to strengthen : the public company Board of Director's role in value creation ; management accountability to the Board ; and Board accountability to shareholders

Leblanc, Richard W. - In: International journal of disclosure and governance 10 (2013) 4, pp. 295-310

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The Role of Stakeholder E-Engagement on the Relation between Board Independence and Environmental Disclosure. Toward a Cohesive Corporate Governance. Evidence from Italian Listed C...

Lepore, Luigi - 2020

Companies worldwide increasingly engaged in corporate social responsibility disclosure, particularly corporate environmental disclosure (CED) has gained increasing importance since the 1980s. Reporting environmental performance has become a fundamental corporate governance mechanism to improve...

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The function of independent directors with different payoff rules : the issue of shareholder activism

Wang, Mao-chang; Chiu, Shih-tsung - In: The international journal of human resource management 24 (2013) 15, pp. 3020-3030

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Board diversity and shareholder voting

Gow, Ian D.; Larcker, David F.; Watts, Edward M. - 2020 - Draft: November 16, 2020

corporate board governance in recent years. Given the critical role that shareholders have in approving director appointments …, we analyze voting patterns in director elections to investigate whether and how shareholders value board diversity. Using … a broad sample of director elections from 2008 through 2018, we find evidence that shareholders provide greater voting …

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