The Annual Shareholder Meeting in Austria in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Christian Szücs ()
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Christian Szücs: University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

A chapter in Conference Proceedings Trends in Business Communication 2020, 2021, pp 177-191 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract All over the world the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about changes. Companies whose annual shareholder meetings were normally attended by hundreds or thousands of shareholders had to postpone their in-person annual meeting or shift it to a virtual format. Such in-person meetings were impossible because they were officially prohibited for health reasons. Many legislators helped companies with establishing COVID-19 company laws, often allowing virtual-only annual shareholder meetings. This article shows to what extent annual shareholder meetings of publicly listed companies have become virtual in Austria so far and what a virtual annual shareholder meeting means for the communication to and among shareholders.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-33642-4_9

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