Reformed and engaged boards – not activist shareholders

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Reformed and engaged boards – not activist shareholders

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University of Waikato

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Description

This study considers the legitimacy of shareholder activism as a means of exercising influence in the corporate decision-making process and identifies self-reformed boards as a superior solution to the issues that activists attempt to address. We conceptualise the board of directors' role as representing the interests of multiple principals. When any one principal is able to serve its own interests by influencing corporate decision-making through shareholder activism, other principals' intere...

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Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2011

Creator

Ingley, Coral / Rennie, Morina / Mueller, Jens / Cocks, Graham / Warrick, Donald D. / Erakovic, Liljana

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5478

Related subjects

activists / shareholders / investors / multiple principal agency theory / engagement / corporate decision making / self-reformed boards / leadership / shareholder activism / board of directors / director role / public policy / corporate governance reform

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