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Sovereign wealth funds, shareholder activism and socially responsible investing : impact on corporate governance and sustainability

Yin, Wei - In: International journal of green economics 12 (2018) 2, pp. 111-126

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Climate Proposals : ESG Shareholder Activism Sidestepping Board Authority

Cools, Sofie - 2023

) issues as matters of strategy and statutorily attribute substantive competence for such matters not to the shareholders … shareholders’ actual power to take up the task that financial law gives them, and there is currently no European or international … shareholders meeting to amend the company’s constitutional documents …

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Shareholder Activism on Climate Change : Evolution, Determinants, and Consequences

Diaz-Rainey, Ivan; Griffin, Paul A.; Lont, David H.; … - 2023

We study 944 shareholder proposals submitted to 343 U.S. firms on climate change issues during 2009–2022. We use logistic and two-stage regression to estimate the propensity for a firm to be targeted or subjected to a vote at the annual general meeting and, for voted proposals, the...

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Can the market identify prosperous activist engagements? : evidence from announcement and long-term buy-and-hold returns

Hartmann, Jochen; Pelster, Matthias; Sievers, Sönke - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 89 (2023), pp. 174-187

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The Future of Shareholder Activism

Hamdani, Assaf - 2019

Activist hedge funds do not hold a sufficiently large number of shares to win proxy battles, and their success in driving corporate change relies on the willingness of institutional investors to support their cause. Against this background, this Article advances three claims about the...

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Shareholder Activism Around the Globe : Hedge Funds vs. Other Professional Investors

Hartmann, Jochen; Pelster, Matthias; Sievers, Sönke - 2021

Shareholder activism has sharply increased over the past decade and spread both across countries and among different types of investors. Today, 50% of all engagements occur outside North America, with non-hedge fund investors accounting for one-third of all engagements. We investigate the...

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Shareholder activism on sustainability issues

Grewal, Jody; Serafeim, George; Yoon, Aaron - 2017

Shareholder activism on sustainability issues has become increasingly prevalent over the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental and social...

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Long-term economic consequences of hedge fund activist interventions

DeHaan, Ed; Larcker, David F.; McClure, Charles - 2018

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Long-term economic consequences of hedge fund activist interventions

DeHaan, Ed; Larcker, David F.; McClure, Charles - 2018

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The myth of the shareholder revolution and the financialization of the firm

Knafo, Samuel; Dutta, Sahil Jai - In: Review of international political economy 27 (2020) 3, pp. 476-499

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