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Responsible Ownership, Shareholder Value and the New Shareholder Activism
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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:41 authored by John Hendry, Paul Sanderson, Richard Barker, John RobertsIn this paper we use interview data to explore the ‘new shareholder activism’ of mainstream UK institutional investors. We describe contemporary practices of corporate governance monitoring and engagement and how they vary across institutions, and explore the motivations behind them. Existing studies of shareholder activism mainly assume that it is motivated by a desire to maximise shareholder value, and we find some evidence both of this and of alternative political/moral motivations related to ideas of responsible ownership. We conclude, however, that in the current situation both these act primarily as rationalisations rather than as genuine motivators. The main driving force behind the new shareholder activism is the institutions’ own profit maximisation and the need to position themselves against competitor institutions in the context of political and regulatory changes that have significantly changed the non-financial expectations of their clients.
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11Issue number
3Page range
223-240Publication title
Competition and ChangeISSN
1477-2221External DOI
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SAGELanguage
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2015-11-04Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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