The Role of Global Institutional Investors — Shareholder Engagement Opportunities for a New Era

Peter Butler

Chapter 7 in Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop, 2002, pp 145-156 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract I wish to discuss the duty of shareholders to intervene in the companies in which they invest, and how shareholders can create value in doing so. And it is because I believe in this shareholder engagement that I disagree with the view, raised by Simon Deakin earlier in this volume, that it is inevitable that the UK will move towards the US litigation model. Such a view overlooks the fact that shareholders in the UK have many more rights than shareholders in the United States. It is true that shareholders do not always use those rights, but if they are used properly, I think US-style litigation is not necessary.

Keywords: Business Ethic; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investor; Pension Fund; Fund Manager (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511033_7

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