IFin Seminar, Renée Adams, University of Oxford

Istituto di finanza

Data: 9 Ottobre 2020 / 12:25 - 13:40

Relatore: Renée Adams, University of Oxford

Tema:     "Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors’ Decisions"

Data:      9 ottobre 2020

Ore:        12:25 - 13:40

Aula:       Virtuale

Campus di Lugano

 

Abstract:

We present evidence on the way personal and institutional factors guide public company directors in decision-making concerning shareholders and stakeholders. In a sample comprising more than nine hundred directors from over fifty countries of origin, we confirm that directors hold a principled, quasi-ideological stance towards shareholders and stakeholders, called shareholderism. Directors’ shareholderism correlates with personal values, but also with cultural norms that are consistent with entrepreneurship. Among legal factors, only creditor protection exhibits a negative correlation with shareholderism, while general legal origin and proxies for shareholder and employee protection are unrelated to it.

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