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Unless there is a conflict of interest between a company's management and its board, owners in common-law countries have no legal recourse when managers' operational or strategic decisions are bad, stupid, or otherwise harmful to shareholders.
Throughout the rich world, institutions that raise the costs to shareholders of turning over control to professional managers play a powerful role in determining outcomes.
Faced with a no-fire rule, shareholders have reason to be very cautious: if expansion is not profitable, they cannot reduce labor costs.
In a nation like the US, where employees can be fired easily, shareholders have less to fear.
If managers are only loosely tied to shareholders, they could more willingly give up a bigger share of the pie to labor.
Shareholders can recoup their initial investment over time, but nothing beyond that.
First, is the Fund’s governance structure suited to exercising arms-length surveillance of its main shareholders?
The Shareholder Spring ContinuesLONDON – It is annual general meeting season – the time of year when some of the world’s biggest companies gather to report to shareholders and have some semblance of a conversation with them.
In 2012, shareholders and others started shining a bright light on boards, questioning their decisions and activities, and those of individual members, and thus was born the Shareholder Spring.
The board gathers in front of a camera for a live webcast to shareholders, takes questions submitted in advance, and avoids the protesters altogether.
They protect creditors and minority shareholders from miscreant managers (and managers from impulsive creditors).
Productivity improvements, by lowering costs, allow firms to pay their workers and suppliers better, reduce prices for consumers, pay more in taxes, and still make more money for their shareholders.
Ensuring sound corporate governance and protection of minority shareholders' rights must come first.
For banks and their shareholders, it looks a case of heads they win, tails we lose.
Deferred earnings held abroad are “locked out” of the US economy, in the sense that they are not directly available for domestic use by US MNCs and their shareholders.
Similarly, many company bosses know that pretending that climate problems do not exist is bad for shareholders, because reality will one day strike.
Yet there is ample evidence that the benefits of such tax cuts accrue disproportionately to the rich, largely via companies buying back stock and shareholders earning higher dividends.
That will leave US importers to pay the tariffs and pass on the cost to US consumers (further fueling inflation) or to US shareholders through lower profits.
Just as we have learned to distinguish between governments as shareholders and as regulators – which must be done carefully, because the actions of one do not necessarily coincide with the interests of the other – today we must distinguish between governments as borrowers and as financial regulators.
Meanwhile, the earnings yield on the stocks that make up the S&P composite is fluctuating around 6%: that is how much money the corporations that underpin the stocks are making for their shareholders.
Or you can argue that they are corrupt empire-builders who dissipate a portion of the shareholders’ money that they control.
It describes how big corporations, led by the super-rich, are dodging taxes, driving down wages, cutting prices paid to producers, and investing less in their businesses in order to maximize returns for their wealthy shareholders.
What is unexpected is that the new wealth is flowing not to the shareholders of dot-com companies, but to purchasers and users of high-tech capital and the consumers they serve.
The private life of a politician may be revealed if it is expected to have consequences for the way the country is being governed; that of a top executive of a public company if it may affect the returns to shareholders.
A large body of economic research shows that, at most, 20-25% of the benefits of corporate tax cuts will accrue to labor; the rest will go to shareholders, about one-third of whom are foreign.
It is the responsibility of all of us – board members, shareholders, employees, consumers – to force businesses to look beyond short-term profits and fulfill their broader corporate responsibility.
They are determined champions of an enlightened environmentalism that is in the interest of all their stakeholders – customers, shareholders, employees, and the communities in which they operate.
But most food vendors would rather follow the dictates of their shareholders and sell more expensive, higher-margin food, with little regard for how healthy it is.
Operationally and financially, the IMF has become much more involved in Europe than its global shareholders deem sustainable.
How can firms be understood without examining the corporate contracts that bring together their stakeholders – that is, their shareholders, bankers, suppliers, customers, and employees – whose complex relationships are manifested in companies’ balance sheets and transaction flows?
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