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Showing 1 to 20 of 344 for “"Shareholder"”.
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Unanimous Shareholder Agreements
The unanimous shareholder agreement is a feature of most Canadian corporate statutes that allows the shareholders to, by creating an agreement meeting the necessary criteria, restrict the powers of the directors to manage the business and affairs of the corporation. One possible justification for …
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The Shareholder Movement: Shareholder Rights and Activism in 20th Century United States
“The Shareholder Movement: Shareholder Rights and Activism in 20th Century United States” – the first sustained historical study of modern American shareholder activism – investigates the loose coalition of shareholder activists united around the ideal of shareholder democracy in the middle of the …
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Understanding Controlling Shareholder Regimes
… has emphasized heavily the "dispersed shareholder regimes" in the United States and the United Kingdom, although "controlling shareholder regimes" constitute the vast majority of the world's economy. Since there have been few systematic studies concerning controlling shareholder regimes …
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THE SHAREHOLDER AND MODERN PUBLIC COMPANY MANAGEMENT
… between a company, its directors and its shareholders was constructed and analysed in depth against its historical socio-political background. A second model, "the Commercial Reality model", was hypothesised as an alternative reflecting more closely how the relationships actually work in …
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Creating shareholder value through total customer solutions
… examines how various chemical companies create shareholder value. Against the backdrop of the latest strategic thinking of Arnoldo C. Hax and Dean Wilde Il as discussed in the Deha Model, the author reviews the strategic position of each company and compares them to the shareholder value they …
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EVA and shareholder value creation: an empirical study
… that EVA is more highly associated with shareholder wealth and firm values than are traditional performance measures. Two commonly used value-based performance metrics namely, Total Shareholder Return (TSR) and Tobin's Q are also considered to highlight the valuerelevance of EVA vis-a-vis …
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The impact of customer-related strategies on shareholder value
Marketing strategy has been justified by a number of criteria, including brand awareness, consumer attitudes, repeat buying and ratings of customer satisfaction; but the existing literature indicates the existence of weak relationships between these variables and sales, and almost no relationship …
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The effect of mergers and acquisitions on shareholder returns
… a positive or negative wealth effect for shareholders of firms involved. The Hubris theory hypothesises that mergers and acquisitions affect the value of the firms as well as shareholder wealth. This theory predicts that as a result of mergers and acquisitions, the value of target firms …
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Corporate actions and the empowerment of non-shareholder constituencies
… developments concerning the empowerment of non-shareholder constituencies in Anglo-American jurisdictions of the United States of America and the United Kingdom since the 1980s have been of very limited utility. Available literature and legal authorities in both those jurisdictions clearly …
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Shareholder appraisal rights in Swaziland - suggestions for legislative reform
… conducted based on the votes of the majority of shareholders in that company. In certain instances however, the majority might take decisions that are detrimental to the minority shareholders of the company and therefore it is imperative that any company legislation has significant protective …
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Analyst Herding, Shareholder Investment Horizon, and Management Earnings Guidance
This dissertation examines the characterization of transient investors by financial analysts. Transient investors have been portrayed in the literature as either 1) informed investors or 2) poor monitors. No research to date, however, has examined how financial analysts, who are important …
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Labor unions and shareholder activism: Union and firm characteristics in determining shareholder activism, resolution outcomes, and firm targets among labor union pension funds
… of labor unions, via their pension funds, as shareholder activists in corporate America. For decades unions have struggled to regain their strength as representatives of the American worker, and since the turn of the 21st century they have found a creative new way of doing so. Historically, …
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Shareholder litigation and the information content of management voluntary disclosure
… content of managers’ voluntary disclosures in a shareholder litigation environment. I model the litigation mechanism in which the legal liability is based on the actual damages shareholders incur from buying a stock at an inflated price. I find that the optimal disclosure strategy in equilibrium …
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Corporate diversification and shareholder value: the effect of stock illiquidity.
Una gran parte de la literatura estándar sobre el efecto de la diversificación concluye que las empresas diversificadas operan con un descuento significativo en comparación con las empresas enfocadas. Aunque se ha realizado mucha investigación para aislar los factores que fomentan las diferencias …
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Shareholder wealth effects of convertible bond announcements in South Africa
This study examines shareholder wealth effects of convertible bond announcements in South Africa for the period 2004 to 2017. The data shows that South African companies issue convertible bonds for several reasons and that issues are not only South African rand denominated, but are in other …
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Opportunities to enhance shareholder value through real estate asset management
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Do classified boards protect top management? : evidence from shareholder proposals
… a panel regression discontinuity design to shareholder proposals on board declassification. We focus on shareholder proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes in order to provide a causal estimate of the impact of board declassification. We find that shareholder proposal approval …
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