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Understanding Shareholder Activism: Which Corporations are Targeted?

Kathleen Rehbein

Marquette University, Kathleen.rehbein{at}marquette.edu

Sandra Waddock

Boston College, waddock{at}bc.edu

Samuel B. Graves

Boston College, Samuel.graves{at}bc.edu

This study provides preliminary empirical evidence that shareholder activists target companies because of their size as well as specific stakeholder-related practices. The data show that shareholder activists target companies with shareholder resolutions demanding changes in corporate behaviors for companies producing problematic products and where environmental concerns exist. Furthermore, companies in specific industries are targeted based on poor employee and community-related practices. Activists, that is, are selective in their targeting of companies, choosing the most visible (largest) companies and those whose practices raise specific issues of interest to society.

Key Words: corporate social performance • social responsibility • shareholder activism • stakeholders • shareholder resolutions • KLD Socrates database • Investor Responsibility Research Center

Business & Society, Vol. 43, No. 3, 239-267 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0007650304266869
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