The conflicts of interest between owners and managers have spurred a great deal of research on shareholders' potential ability to reduce agency costs in public corporations. Scholars, however, still disagree on which investors defy the free-rider problem and engage in value-adding activism. We develop a novel approach to identify activist investors based on their past investment behaviour and study where such owners improve their target companies. We depart from the existing literature and produce two alternative investor groupings based on portfolio concentration and investment horizon to predict propensity to activism. We examine how the investor groups relate to improvements in corporate governance, organisation and payout. We stud...
The trend of socially responsible investing is spreading fast. More and more organizations are publ...
In today's business environment, issues related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environ...
Investments in learning are central to the sustained growth and competiveness of corporations. Howev...
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The conflicts of interest between owners and managers have spurred a great dea...
Efficient capital markets are essential for market-based economies and their growth. Economic growth...
The private equity industry has experienced vast growth in recent years. At the same time research ...
Board interlocks, or interlocking directorates, have garnered wide academic attention as a form of i...
The consolidation of corporate ownership into the hands of large institutional investors has resulte...
Corporate responsibility is a question that many stakeholders are interested in. These stakeholders ...
The private equity industry is large, global and has a big impact on the world economy through the p...
Sustainability issues around the globe have changed the capital markets and boost the concept of soc...
A fundamental change in the startup ecosystem during the last decade has shifted the attention of in...
Abstract OBJECTIVES Shareholders and investors have generally been considered to be stakeholders wit...
Organizations have been demonstrated to respond to a shortfall in their performance with various typ...
Perheyritykset muodostavat merkittävän osan eri kansantalouksien yrityskannasta, ja niiden yritystoi...
The trend of socially responsible investing is spreading fast. More and more organizations are publ...
In today's business environment, issues related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environ...
Investments in learning are central to the sustained growth and competiveness of corporations. Howev...
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The conflicts of interest between owners and managers have spurred a great dea...
Efficient capital markets are essential for market-based economies and their growth. Economic growth...
The private equity industry has experienced vast growth in recent years. At the same time research ...
Board interlocks, or interlocking directorates, have garnered wide academic attention as a form of i...
The consolidation of corporate ownership into the hands of large institutional investors has resulte...
Corporate responsibility is a question that many stakeholders are interested in. These stakeholders ...
The private equity industry is large, global and has a big impact on the world economy through the p...
Sustainability issues around the globe have changed the capital markets and boost the concept of soc...
A fundamental change in the startup ecosystem during the last decade has shifted the attention of in...
Abstract OBJECTIVES Shareholders and investors have generally been considered to be stakeholders wit...
Organizations have been demonstrated to respond to a shortfall in their performance with various typ...
Perheyritykset muodostavat merkittävän osan eri kansantalouksien yrityskannasta, ja niiden yritystoi...
The trend of socially responsible investing is spreading fast. More and more organizations are publ...
In today's business environment, issues related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environ...
Investments in learning are central to the sustained growth and competiveness of corporations. Howev...