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The type of antitakeover amendments a firm adopts depends on three factors: an effective governance structure, the alignment of managerial and stockholders' interests, and stockholder control.","A cross-sectional test of the proposed relationships based on a sample of 232 Standard & Poor's 500 firms as of 1985, indicates the relevance of board governance structure, alignment of interests, and stockholder control as predictors of antitakeover amendment adoption. Results also emphasize the importance of ownership factors (CEOs and institutional investors' stock ownership), in predicting adoptions. These results support and extend previous board governance literature. However, results of a five year assessment of the data indicate no systematic relationship across time, indicating that agency theory alone cannot adequately predict antitakeover amendment adoption.","Firms that adopted contradictory amendments from an agency standpoint were qualitatively examined. Results of a content analysis of the proxy statements of three of these firms indicate that they often packaged positive and negative amendments in one proposal, and used three major themes to persuade stockholders to adopt antitakeover amendments: board unanimity, shareholders' interests, and the negativity of takeover tactics.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:53:02Z (GMT). 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