Board-Shareholder Dialogue

Policy Debate, Legal Constraints and Best Practices

Luca Enriques, Giovanni Strampelli

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009360739
• Subtopic: Corporate Law
• Index: Law

This book provides corporate law scholars and students and practitioners at law firms, advisory services firms and asset managers with a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the financial, managerial, policy and legal issues arising from a key feature of today's corporate governance environment, namely, the dialogue between shareholders and corporate boards. Bringing together top corporate law and corporate governance scholars from the world's leading academic institutions, the collection is characterized by a multi-dimensional approach that takes into account the particularities of some national legal systems and combines theoretical analysis with practical insights into various aspects of board-shareholder dialogue.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• The Dialogue between Corporations and Institutional Investors: An Introduction
• 1 The New Corporate Governance
• 2 Shareholder Voice and Corporate Purpose: The Purposelessness of Mandatory Corporate Purpose Statements
• 3 The Purpose of Corporate Purpose Statements: A Response to ‘‘Shareholder Voice and Corporate Purpose: The Purposelessness of Mandatory Corporate Purpose Statements’’ by Paul A. Davies
• 4 Systemic Stewardship with Tradeoffs
• 5 Giant Asset Managers, the Big Three, and Index Investing
• 6 Something Old, Something New: Cultivating Institutional Investor Engagement through Shareholder Stewardship
• 7 The Perils and Promise of Shareholders as Stakeholder Advocates
• 8 How to Facilitate ESG Investor Engagement
• 9 Emerging ESG-Driven Models of Shareholder Collaborative Engagement
• 10 ESG and Board-Shareholder Engagement in M&A
• 11 How Does Board-Shareholder Engagement Really Work?: Evidence from a Survey of Corporate Officers and from Disclosure Data
• 12 Shareholder Engagement inside and outside the Shareholder Meeting
• 13 The Viability of Blockchain in Corporate Governance
• 14 Shareholder Engagement in East Asia
• 15 Board-Shareholder Engagement and Directors’ Appointments
• 16 Shareholder Proposals and the Debate over Sustainability Disclosure
• 17 Board-Shareholder Engagement and Disclosure Obligations under Corporate Governance Codes
• 18 Board-Shareholder Engagement and Insider Regulation
• 19 Market Soundings Rules: The Challenges and Opportunities for Board-Shareholder Engagement