The 2019 ECGI Annual Members' Meeting will take place at IESE Business School, Barcelona on 24 October 2019.
This Conference will offer a context to reflect upon and better understand how the different nature of shareholders have an impact on the way companies are governed and managed...
This event at Downing College, University of Cambridge will consider the broader question of how best to incorporate ESG concerns into investment portfolios.
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) will conduct a 3-day international seminar in the beginning of November to wrap up the past research activities and to explore new issues to be challenged concerning this research project.
An alumnus of Ashridge Business School, Selina Neri is an Adjunct Professor at Hult International Business School (Dubai and Shanghai campus). She also collaborates with HEC Paris as Adjunct Professor, co-author of published MBA case studies, and regular speaker at executive management seminars.
To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to investigate whether the presence of female directors in the boardrooms of US corporations increases the consumption of renewable energy as a share of total energy consumption. Renewable energy includes energy from wind, solar, biomass,...
A trademark is a type of intellectual property comprising a recognizable word, phrase, symbol, and/or design that distinguishes products or services of a particular source from those of others. If registered, the trademark owner obtains exclusive rights to operate and market under the trademark...
This paper studies managerial reaction to shareholder empowerment that strengthens shareholder voting, a form of direct democracy. We explore this research question by looking at the staggered passage of legislation that makes it more costly to not implement shareholder proposals about the...
Mutual funds own approximately 30 percent of the U.S. equity market, and the Big Three fund families – Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street – are the largest blockholders in the vast majority of large, publicly traded companies. This has made mutual funds a force to be reckoned with in...
How do active managers engage with portfolio firms? And, what role does monitoring and engagement play in their trading decisions? We use proprietary data from a large UK active asset manager with a long-standing commitment to stewardship to...Read more
We study shareholder voting in a model in which trading affects the composition of the shareholder base. In this model, trading and voting are complementary, which gives rise to self-fulfilling expectations about proposal acceptance. We show...Read more
The stockholder/stakeholder dilemma has occupied corporate leaders and corporate lawyers for over a century. In addition to the question whose interests should managers prioritize, the question how those interests could or should be balanced has...Read more
Does doing more deals together always strengthen investor relationships? Based on the relationships of the top 50 US venture capital firms, this paper focuses on the strengths of relationships and their dynamic evolution. Empirical estimates...Read more
This article is the first in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
This article is the second in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
This article is the third in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
This article is the fourth in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
Prof. Dan W. Puchniak presents his paper on "Related Party Transactions in Commonwealth Asia: Complicating the Comparative Paradigm" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Michael Klausner.
Prof. Vicente Cuñat presents his paper on "Active Owners and Firm Policies" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Oğuzhan Karakaş.
Prof. Jennifer Hill presents her paper on "Corporate Culture and Liability" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Edward Rock
Prof. Enrichetta Ravina presents her paper on "Investor Ideology" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Holger Spamann.
