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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Shareholder activism"”.
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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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Understanding and Augmenting Institutional Shareholder Activism: A Comparative Study of the UK and China
Institutional shareholder participation has long been considered as vital to good corporate governance in the UK, and increasingly recognized as, at least potentially, an important part of Chinese corporate governance too. But its potential does not yet seem to have been realised. The reasons for …
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The carbon disclosure project, an evolution in international environmental corporate governance : motivations and determinants of market response to voluntary disclosures
… These hypotheses include a response to shareholder activism, domestic institutional investor shareholder activism, signalling, litigation risk, and low cost publicity. Both binary logistic regressions as well as a cross-sectional analysis of the equity market's response to the …
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Activists who win: the effect of activist identity on shareholder voting
This thesis examines the effect of shareholder activist identity on voting outcomes within the context of shareholder proposals and what explains that effect. The extant literature broadly assumes shareholder homogeneity and has focused on the relationship between activists and target firms. In …
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Essays on Stakeholder Activism and Firm Practices
… emergence and evolution of novel forms of social activism, including those coming from organizational members, such as employees and shareholders. The first study of my dissertation takes the context of bottom-up activism and explores how activists' employees influence corporate behaviour. I …
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Essays on Mergers and Acquisitions and Governance
… and not only creates losses to the acquirer shareholders but also decreases total expected synergies. This evidence is consistent with the managerial entrenchment hypothesis; more centrally positioned bidder CEOs are insulated from both the disciplinary market for corporate control and the …
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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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Essays in financial economics
… between corporate social responsibility (CSR), shareholder value, and competition by applying a regression discontinuity design to the outcome of CSR shareholder proposals. The approval of CSR proposals generates positive abnormal returns on the vote date, increases CSR scores, increases market …
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Activist hedge funds
Hedge funds have played a significant role in shareholder activism in the U.S. They have appeared quite frequently in the media as the driving force behind changes in firms' management that generate higher returns on their investments. Nonetheless, many wonder whether they really bring long-term …
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Investigating Factors Which Influence the Practice of Corporate Governance within the Kenyan Corporate Sector
… ownership structure of firms, absence of shareholder activism, powerful traditional norms and culture, outdated corporate statutes and weak regulatory environment, and uncertainties within the country’s economy. Contrary to expectations following adoption of Kenya’s CG code, this thesis …
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The Evolution of Hedge Fund Activism: From Corporate Raiders to Sustainability Crusaders?
… prevailing rhetoric associated with hedge fund activism is almost universally negative. This thesis provides new evidence of activist hedge fund behavior that contradicts this dominant narrative. The principal idea underpinning the thesis is that the conventional picture of hedge fund activism …