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Collaborative investor engagement with policymakers : changing the rules of the game?
Yamahaki, Camila; Marchewitz, Catherine - 2023
Although a growing number of investors are engaging with sovereign entities on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, little academic research investigates this new form of investor activism. Applying universal ownership theory and drawing on eleven case studies of policy...
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What Is the impact of mutual funds' ESG references on portfolio firms?
Couvert, Maxime - 2021
staggered changes in funds' voting policies, I show that investee companies adopt their mutual fund shareholders' preferred … governance provisions. This adoption is the result of mutual fund shareholders' active voting. Announced voting policies also … stimulate strategic proposal submissions by non-mutual fund shareholders …
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Investor-led sustainability in corporate governance
Ringe, Wolf-Georg - 2022
The transition to a sustainable economy currently involves a fundamental transformation of our capital markets. Lawmakers, in an attempt to overcome this challenge, frequently seek to prescribe and regulate how firms may address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns by formulating...
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Toward fair gainsharing and a quality workplace for employees : how a reconceived compensation committee might help make corporations more responsible employers and restore faith i...
Strine, Leo E.; Smith, Kirby M. - 2020
In the three decades after World War II, workers and stockholders shared equitably in the nation’s growing wealth. But …
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Executive Compensation : Investor Preferences During Say-on-Pay Votes and the Role of Proxy Voting Advisors
Gomtsian, Suren - 2023
Shareholder say-on-pay votes allow institutional investors to influence the incentives of managers and, consequently, corporate behaviour. Surprisingly, the preferences of investors on executive compensation have been largely overlooked in the ongoing debates on sustainable corporate behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254709
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What are the shareholder value implications of non-voted shareholder proposals?
Couvert, Maxime - 2018
Managerial resistance precludes half of shareholder-initiated proposals from reaching the ballot stage. I construct a novel dataset of excluded and withdrawn proposals from the Securities and Exchange Commission's responses to managers' exclusion requests. An examination of announcement returns...
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Different vision of stewardship : understanding interactions between large investment managers and activist shareholders
Gomtsian, Suren - 2021
to an influential argument, activist shareholders can offer a solution by supplying large investment managers with … shareholders – have different visions of stewardship with little scope for interactions. For large investment managers, general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507489
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ESG investing : theory, evidence, and fiduciary principles
Schanzenbach, Max M.; Sitkoff, Robert H. - 2020 - Draft of August 31, 2020
Trustees and other investment fiduciaries of pensions, charities, and personal trusts, and those who advise them, face increasing pressure to rely on ESG factors in the investment management of tens of trillions of dollars of other people's money. At the same time, however, confusion abounds...
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ESG shareholder engagement and downside risk
Hoepner, Andreas G. F.; Oikonomou, Ioannis; Sautner, … - 2023
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Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? : international evidence
Dyck, Alexander; Lins, Karl; Roth, Lukas; Wagner, Hannes - 2017
This paper assesses whether shareholders drive the environmental and social (E&S) performance of firms worldwide … otherwise. As such, these institutional investors transplant their social norms regarding E&S issues around the world …
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