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Shareholder Empowerment

Three Institutional Innovations to Awaken the Sleeping Giant
Nomos,  2010, 158 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8329-5851-0


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The work is part of the series Neue Studien zur Politischen Ökonomie (Volume 8)
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englischHow can shareholders play a more active role in the corporation? Which institutional arrangements can awaken this sleeping giant and channel its power in a beneficial direction? This book explores three delegation arrangements which are of particular interest from a shareholder empowerment perspective: the board of directors, pension funds, and corporate vote buying. It argues that – in order to be truly effective – the delegation of monitoring and voting power should generally be made subject to a competitive process. Two out of the tree arrangements – competitive director elections and the free choice of pension funds – hold promise of leading to an actual empowerment of shareholders while the third – corporate vote buying – appears to disempower rather than empower them.