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Corporate social responsibility and shareholder proposals

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Date
11/2017
Author
Eding, Erwin
Scholtens, Lambertus Johannes Regnerus
Keywords
Shareholder proposals
Corporate social responsibility
Socially responsible investing
UN PRI
Institutional investors
HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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Abstract
We study how corporate social responsibility relates to investors, firms and shareholder proposals. We examine shareholder proposals on environmental, social, and governance issues at the annual general meeting of shareholders with US Fortune 250 firms during 2011-2014. We find that especially the probability of receiving shareholder proposals on environmental issues is positively associated with responsible institutional ownership. We find no systematic evidence that the outperformance regarding social responsibility of the firms themselves would significantly matter regarding the likelihood of shareholders filing proposals about corporate social responsibility, except for employee well-being.
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Eding , E & Scholtens , L J R 2017 , ' Corporate social responsibility and shareholder proposals ' , Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management , vol. 24 , no. 6 , pp. 648-660 . https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1434
Publication
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1434
ISSN
1535-3958
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2017, John Wiley & Sons Ltd and ERP Environment This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1434
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17885

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