This paper examines major forces that have decoupled economic and business prosperity from social prosperity and explores how recoupling can be promoted. Economists have specified well-known conditions under which free market enterprise with shareholder value maximization is efficient. These...

This paper examines major forces that have decoupled economic and business prosperity from social prosperity and explores how recoupling can be promoted. Economists have specified well-known conditions under which free market enterprise with shareholder value maximization is efficient. These...

This article aims to detect how ESG adds value to the long-term shareholder value creation and to discover whether businesses are aware of positive ESG effects and, therefore, whether they will become more ESG-conscious. By conducting a qualitative content analysis on the academic literature,...

The paper’s prime objective is to understand the impact of Shareholder activism on firm performance. This study is conducted in a unique setup where traditional activist investors such as pension funds and hedge funds are not present. However, the activism cases are increasing yearly in an...

Using hand-collected data on CEO appointments during shareholder activism campaigns, this study examines whether shareholder involvement in CEO recruiting affects frictions in CEO hiring decisions. The results indicate that appointments of CEOs who are recruited with shareholder activist...

The present study inspects the comparative effects of inside shareholding on firm value for group-affiliated firms and non-group-affiliated firms in Pakistan. The research uses the excess-value as a performance measure by employing a chop-shop approach in treatment effects regression model...

This paper incorporates low interest rates into a framework of Post-Keynesian theory of the firm under financialisation and uses Compustat data to provide an empirical analysis of firm behaviour in the Eurozone for the period 2000-2018. It reasons that loose monetary policy targeting low...

Purpose - The purpose of this research is to study the impact of divestitures on shareholder wealth. This study covers selloffs of publicly traded companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region) during the period 2002-2018. It aims to understand the overall effect of selloffs on...

Purpose - The paper investigates the market performance of strategic acquisitions for growth in the fifth and sixth merger waves and outlines the major determinants that affect the performance of acquiring companies in these most complex and most challenging corporate transactions....

In contrast to popular belief, this paper shows that there does not exist an unambiguous positive relationship between an unbiased shareholder's voting power and the quality of corporate governance. I utilize a 2010 NYSE policy change that increased shareholders' voting power in uncontested...

Shareholder class action litigation is the most discussed and controversial category of class actions but, unfortunately, much of the analysis and commentary on shareholder class actions has been inaccurate. The purpose of this report is to provide comprehensive and accurate data with respect to...

The consensus around shareholder primacy is crumbling. Investors, long assumed to be uncomplicated profit-maximizers, are looking for ways to express a wider range of values in allocating their funds. Workers are agitating for greater voice at their workplaces. And prominent legislators have...

Major index fund operators have been criticized as ineffective stewards of the firms in which they are now the largest shareholders. While scholars debate whether this passivity is a serious problem, index funds' generally docile approach to ownership is broadly acknowledged. However, this...

The German system of company law and corporate governance is often referred to as a ‘stakeholder value system' which places it in opposition to Anglo-American ‘shareholder value systems'. This characterisation suggests more scope for the promotion of corporate sustainability. This chapter...

The involvement of companies is key for a sustainable society, but it is debated whether shareholders can stimulate the achievement of corporate sustainability goals. We investigate shareholder sustainability engagement in the Netherlands. First, we present the Dutch corporate law framework in a...

Although empirical studies show that common shareholding affects corporate conduct and that common horizontal shareholding lessens competition, critics have argued that the law should not take any action until we have clearer proof on the causal mechanisms. I show that we actually have ample...

Investment advisers to mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and separately managed accounts are typically delegated the authority to vote their clients' securities. When this delegation occurs, these investment advisers have a fiduciary duty to vote their proxies, typically the voting rights...

This paper contributes to the literature that analyses the relationship between Share-Option Based Compensation (SOBC) expense and shareholder returns. It utilises a sample of financial firms listed in the European Economic Area and Switzerland between 2005 and 2016 to make inferences about the...

We analyse the effects of changes in regulatory capital requirements under Basel III on the dynamics of bank shareholder equity. Evidence from managerial and regulatory reports shows that bank shareholder equity stands between Basel III regulatory capital requirements and managerial pursuit of...

Mutual fund shareholders are particularly supportive of “overlapping directors”—directors who serve simultaneously on a corporate board and a mutual fund board. Such support is observed on behalf of both connected funds (sharing a director with the company) and non-connected funds (not...

A controlling shareholder can pledge shares to secure personal loans while retaining control of the firm, but share pledging increases the risk of a margin call and the possibility of losing control of the firm. We investigate how share pledging by controlling shareholders influences the...

Due to historically weaker institutions and less favourable macroeconomic conditions in the African context, we argue that corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) activities might be penalized less while corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities may be of less benefit for firms. Using a...

Two models of the firm dominate corporate law. Under the management-power model, decision-making power rests primarily with corporate insiders (officers and directors). The competing shareholder-power model defends increased shareholder power to limit managerial authority. Both models view...

This paper investigated performance measurement tools and shareholder's wealth relationships in the context of Malaysian public listed construction companies. Conventional measures are still utilized by many Malaysian listed companies even though it has been criticized by many researchers. Both...

This paper examines the risk premium of value stocks within a global investment strategy framework. We test whether absolute or relative mis-pricing is better suited to capturing the global value premium by using fair value-based net asset values (NAVs) as our proxies for fundamental value. We...

This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), shareholder value, and competition by applying a regression discontinuity design to the outcome of CSR shareholder proposals. This approach effectively compares outcomes between proposals that pass or fail by a...

In this research, one of the prominent Shareholder Value Metric, Market Value Added (MVA) is used to measure shareholder value. The primary Objective of this research is to objectively and empirically identify the profit variants which maximize shareholders' value on a long term. This paper...

We model an investor's choice between filing Schedules 13D and 13G and use the model to estimate expected returns to activist and passive investing. Using the model, we decompose average Schedule 13D filing announcement returns into treatment (75.2%), stock picking (12.2%), and sample selection...

This paper aims to discover evidence on the possible impact of CEO overconfidence on payout policy, and the role of corporate boards in offsetting the possible negative effects of this overconfidence. Our investigation demonstrates the effect of overconfidence on the choice of payout method,...

This paper examines the purpose of companies in a stakeholder and a shareholder model. It examines the interests of shareholders and stakeholders. In light of recent developments it examines the tension between the aforementioned interests. This paper argues that the tensions between the...

This paper examines whether an intensification of corporate social responsibility activities adds or destroys firms' value in Nigeria. Fixed effect regression analytic tool was used to analyze the data from a sample of 56 listed firms on Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) between 2009 and 2018. We...

We examine whether engagement on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues can benefit shareholders by reducing firms' downside risk, measured using the lower partial moment and value at risk. Using a proprietary database, we provide evidence supporting this hypothesis. We further find...