Shareholder Activists Avant la Lettre: The “Complaining Participants” in the Dutch East India Company, 1622–1625

Johan Matthijs Jongh

Chapter Chapter 3 in Origins of Shareholder Advocacy, 2011, pp 61-87 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Redde Rationem Villicationis Tuae! Give an Account of Your Stewardship! There was a rich man whose steward was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, “What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, because you cannot be manager any longer” (Luke 16. 1–2).1

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Inside Trading; Share Capital; Shareholder Activism; East India Company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230116665_3

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