Shareholder activism: A multidisciplinary review

M Goranova, LV Ryan - Journal of Management, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Shareholder activism has become a dynamic institutional force, and its associated, rapidly
increasing body of scholarly literature affects numerous disciplines within the organization …

Comparative corporate governance: The state of the art and international regulation

KJ Hopt - The American Journal of Comparative Law, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Corporate governance, ie, the system by which companies are directed and controlled, has
become a key topic for legislation, practice and academia in all modern industrial states. The …

Ownership, activism and engagement: Institutional investors as active owners

T McNulty, D Nordberg - Corporate Governance: An …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Manuscript Type Conceptual Research Question/Issue We research two questions:
First, why do some institutional investors operate at a distance from organizations seemingly …

Shareholder voting and corporate governance

D Yermack - Annu. Rev. Financ. Econ., 2010 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent research into corporate voting and elections. Regulatory reforms
have given shareholders more voting power in the election of directors and in executive …

Executive compensation and board governance in US firms

MJ Conyon - The Economic Journal, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This paper investigates US executive compensation and governance. I find on average
executive pay is positively correlated to firm performance and firm size. Executive pay …

Did corporate governance compliance have an impact on auditor selection and quality? Evidence from FTSE 350

AM Gerged, BB Mahamat, IK Elmghaamez - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
This paper examines the possible effects of corporate governance (GC) on audit quality (AQ)
among the FTSE 350 companies. Using a sample of 180 companies from 2012 to 2017 (ie …

Corporate governance disclosure index–executive pay nexus: The moderating effect of governance mechanisms

MH Elmagrhi, CG Ntim, Y Wang… - European …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper first employs principal component analysis technique to develop and introduce
an alternative UK corporate governance disclosure index to the US‐centric ones. Second …

The impact of say-on-pay on executive compensation

S Balsam, J Boone, H Liu, J Yin - Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of say-on-pay on 2010 executive compensation, finding that
affected firms reduced compensation and made it more performance-based in advance of …

The importance of shareholder activism: The case of say‐on‐pay

K Stathopoulos, G Voulgaris - Corporate Governance: An …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Manuscript Type Review Research Question/Issue This study focuses on the role of
Say‐on‐Pay as a mechanism that aims to promote the efficiency of corporate governance by …

Majority-of-the-minority shareholder votes and investment efficiency

N Cao, PB McGuinness, C ** - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
In an environment where concentrated share ownership is the norm, we ask whether
Majority-of-the-Minority (MoM) votes curb controlling shareholder overreach and investment …