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Maximizing shareholder value over a particular time period may satisfy the interests of some shareholders but violate the interests of others.
The simple theory of profit maximization assumes away the conflicting interests of diverse shareholders.
Third, businesses can also affect shareholders’ interests over time.
So companies can attract like-minded shareholders by espousing distinctive values, missions, and cultures.
A recent study found that patient shareholders account for a larger portion of the shares of companies that espouse a long-term sustainability agenda relative to companies committed to share-price maximization.
In response to concerns among customers, employees, and shareholders, Apple has improved working conditions and agreed to regular reviews by an independent observer.
Companies have a responsibility to their shareholders, but they also have a responsibility to the societies that grant them the right to operate.
As the process of disintermediation adds to the influence of institutional investors other than banks, these nonbank investors are likely to become dominant shareholders and demand a larger say on the supervisory boards of German firms.
Given this shifting business mix, German universal banks will increasingly find themselves focusing on their roles as creditors and corporate advisors, with their role as shareholders receding somewhat into the background.
In both settings, leaders are expected to act in the best interests of the wider community, not simply their own constituencies, whether voters or shareholders.
The IMF’s largest shareholders – the United States, Europe, and Japan – should thus welcome the renminbi’s addition to the SDR basket.
The IMF’s major shareholders should seriously consider it.
Instead, most IMF shareholders seem to favor making the organization’s financing easier.
Consumer pressure, political boycotts, and costly lawsuits were damaging companies’ bottom lines, and environmental policies helped shield companies from bad publicity and protect shareholders from painful losses.
Two important options for raising consumption are social insurance – which is developing, but too slowly – and reducing state-owned enterprises’ huge savings by paying dividends to citizens, much as privately owned companies routinely pay dividends to shareholders.
For the true believers in this creed, the suggestion that the manager of a business should strive for anything except maximizing value for shareholders is heresy.
After all, automation enables companies to spend less on wages, thereby boosting shareholders’ returns.
The Forum has always promoted the notion of corporate social responsibility – or, expressed differently, of business leaders being accountable not only to their employees and shareholders, but also to their communities and society at large.
Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment.
More immediately, the World Bank could seek its shareholders’ approval for a special mechanism – a “pre-arrears clearance grant” – that would enable Somalia to receive IDA financing.
At that point, the government could rely on popular support to expropriate part or all of the new shareholders’ property through nationalization, excessive taxation, or regulation.
Anticipating such an outcome, the new shareholders might try to hide revenues, rather than invest in the company, further impeding efficiency gains and creating a vicious cycle of public distrust in private ownership.
If the government implemented structural reforms that strengthened protection of property rights and the rule of law, new shareholders could expect higher returns, and thus would be willing to pay more for the assets.
But important shareholders, not just crisis-hit eurozone countries, but also the United States, are reluctant to go along.
But oil producers’ need for a certain price does not mean that they can achieve it, any more than iron-ore or copper producers can achieve whatever price they “need” to keep paying the dividends their shareholders expect or want.
In 1944-1945, the five largest shareholders of the IMF and the World Bank – the US, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, China, and France – were the same countries that would end up with permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.
Similarly, before the introduction of limited liability in the nineteenth century, a company’s shareholders or partners were each liable for all of the firm’s debts, which severely restricted businesses’ willingness to borrow to finance trade.
A dividend payment benefits all shareholders directly, whereas share buybacks directly benefit only the firm’s senior executives.
Yes, in theory, if buybacks help to boost the price-to-earnings ratio, that might help shareholders generally, all else being equal.
The rhetoric from the Fund has been ambitious, including at the recently concluded annual meeting of its shareholders – the world’s central banks and finance ministries – in Washington.
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