[HTML][HTML] Determinants of financial performance of insurance companies: Empirical evidence using Kenyan data

K Morara, AB Sibindi - Journal of risk and financial management, 2021 - mdpi.com
The drivers of financial success of the insurance industry are of interest to several players in
any economy including the government; policymakers; policyholders; and investors. In …

Corporate boards in Europe—accountability and convergence

PL Davies, KJ Hopt - The American Journal of Comparative Law, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and are therefore regulated in
the corporate laws and corporate governance codes of all industrialized countries. Yet while …

Myths and realities of hedge fund activism: some empirical evidence

D Katelouzou - Va. L. & Bus. Rev., 2012 - HeinOnline
The brand of shareholder activism associated with hedge funds is a highly topical, yet
equally controversial issue. In this article, I provide a synthesis of the key issues surrounding …

Hedge fund intervention and accounting conservatism

CSA Cheng, HH Huang, Y Li - Contemporary Accounting …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hedge fund intervention has been associated with many positive corporate changes and is
an important vehicle for informed shareholder monitoring. Effective monitoring has also …

[BOOK][B] Enhancing Firm Sustainability Through Governance: The Relational Corporate Governance Approach

F De Zwart - 2015 - books.google.com
Enhancing Firm Sustainability Through Governance presents a fresh perspective on
corporate governance and how the relationship between governance mechanisms …

Institutional investor activism in a context of concentrated ownership and high private benefits of control: The case of Italy

M Belcredi, L Enriques - Research handbook on shareholder …, 2015 - elgaronline.com
At first sight Italy looks like an unfavorable corporate environment for shareholder activism:
concentrated ownership, inadequate legal protection for minority shareholders (Shleifer and …

Missing the forest for the trees: A new approach to shareholder activism

Y Nili - Harv. Bus. L. Rev., 2014 - HeinOnline
Shareholder activism has dominated corporate governance literature for the last decade.
However, despite the abundance of research focusing on specific manifestations of activism …

Hedge fund activism and corporate innovation

T Tang - Economic Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impact of hedge fund activism on corporate innovating activities.
It finds that innovative firms are as likely to be targeted by activist hedge funds as non …

An institutional theory of corporate regulation

IHY Chiu - Current Legal Problems, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The regulation of corporate behaviour has persisted in spite of peaks of neo-liberalism in
many developed jurisdictions of the world, including the UK. This paradox is described as …

Shareholders in the United Kingdom

P Davies - Research handbook on shareholder power, 2015 - elgaronline.com
The influence exercised by shareholders over the running of the companies in which they
are invested varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. An extended analysis of that influence in …