Research Handbook on Shareholder Power / edited by Jennifer G. Hill, Randall S. Thomas.
2015
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Title
Research Handbook on Shareholder Power / edited by Jennifer G. Hill, Randall S. Thomas.
Published
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
Call Number
K1338 .R47 2015
ISBN
9781782546856
1782546855
9781782546849
1782546847
1782546855
9781782546849
1782546847
Description
X, 628 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)917136676
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of contributors
viii
Acknowledgments
x
Introduction
1
pt. I
SHAREHOLDER POWER -- THEN AND NOW
1.
Shareholder power in America, 1800--2000: a short history / Harwell Wells
13
2.
Agency capitalism: further implications of equity intermediation / Jeffrey N. Gordon
32
3.
Images of the shareholder -- shareholder power and shareholder powerlessness / Jennifer G. Hill
53
pt. II
IMPORTANT SHAREHOLDER CATEGORIES
Section A
Institutional Investors
4.
Thirty years of evolution in the roles of institutional investors in corporate governance / John C. Coates
79
Section B
Hedge Funds
5.
US hedge fund activism / Frank Partnoy
99
6.
Hedge fund activism in Europe: does privacy matter? / Jeremy Grant
116
Section C
Controlling Shareholders
7.
Ownership and control in family business groups around the world / Jason Zein
131
8.
The leximetric research on shareholder protection / Mathias M. Siems
168
Section D
The State as Controlling Shareholder
9.
Shareholder rights in China: from book to action / Gilbert Heng
189
pt. III
OWNERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE: THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHAREHOLDERS AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
10.
Conceiving corporate commitment: creation and confirmation / Colin Mayer
211
11.
Preserving director primacy by managing shareholder interventions / Stephen M. Bainbridge
231
12.
Boards of directors and corporate performance under a team production model / Margaret M. Blair
249
13.
Independent directors and controlling shareholders around the world / Marilena Filippelli
269
pt. IV
SHAREHOLDER POWER IN ACTION
14.
Serial takeovers, large shareholders, and CEOs' equity-based compensation / Luc Renneboog
297
15.
Say on pay / Fabrizio Ferri
319
16.
Whose law is it? Battling over turf in shareholder litigation / James D. Cox
333
pt. V
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON SHAREHOLDER POWER
Section A
Europe
17.
Shareholders in the United Kingdom / Paul Davies
355
18.
Institutional investor activism in a context of concentrated ownership and high private benefits of control: the case of Italy / Luca Enriques
383
19.
Changing law and ownership patterns in Germany: corporate governance and the erosion of Deutschland AG / Wolf-Georg Ringe
404
Section B
USA and South America
20.
The power of shareholders in the United States / Robert B. Thompson
441
21.
The theory and practice of corporate voting at US public companies / Paul H. Edelman
459
22.
Corporate control and governance after a decade from `Novo Mercado': changes in ownership structures and shareholder power in Brazil / Erica Gorga
479
Section C
Asia
23.
Multiple faces of shareholder power in Asia: complexity revealed / Dan W. Puchniak
511
24.
Dynamics of shareholder power in Korea / Kon Sik Kim
535
25.
The future of Japanese corporate governance: Japan's internal governance and development of Japanese-style external governance through engagement / Zenichi Shishido
552
26.
Shareholder empowerment in controlled companies: the case of Singapore / Umakanth Varottil
572
27.
Shareholder power in India / George S. Geis
592
Index
611