ACTIVISME ACTIONNARIAL ET RESPONSABILITE SOCIALE DES ENTREPRISES AU CANADA: ANALYSE DES RESOLUTIONS SOUMISES PAR LES ACTIONNAIRES ENTRE 2000 ET 2011

Vanessa Serret () and Sylvie Berthelot
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Vanessa Serret: IREA - Institut de Recherche sur les Entreprises et les Administrations - UBS - Université de Bretagne Sud
Sylvie Berthelot: GREDI - Groupe de recherche en économie et développement international [Sherbrooke] - École de gestion de l'Université de Sherbrooke - UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke

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Abstract: This research sets out to analyse shareholder militant activity that aims to improve practice in the social and environmental responsibility of a number of companies quoted on the Canadian stock exchange through resolutions voted between 2000 and 2011. From the 238 cases analysed, we can firstly observe a revival of this phenomenon linked to a favourable legal context. The preoccupation of institutional shareholders is primarily (but not essentially) concentrated on questions of global warming, and the female representation at managerial level within companies. The banking sector and risk industries have been preferentially and principally targeted by institutional investors. The high rate of withdrawal of proposals before a general assembly indicates to a certain degree the success of activists in changing the position of companies.

Keywords: shareholder activism; corporate social responsibility; proposals; MEDAC; activisme actionnarial; responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise; résolutions; MEDAC. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-05-31
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Published in Comptabilité sans Frontières..The French Connection, May 2013, Canada. pp.cd-rom

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