Understanding Shareholder Activism: Which Corporations are Targeted?

By K. Rehbein, S. Waddock, Samuel B. Graves. 2004

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Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Running Just to Stand Still? Managing CSR Reputation in an Era of Ratcheting Expectations (2008, result): “Consistent with previous research ( Rehbein, Waddock, & Graves, 2004 ) we found”
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect Corporate Tax Aggressiveness (2015, background): “This strongly suggests the need to consider the individual dimensions of CSR separately (Hillman and Keim, 2001; Rehbein et al., 2004).”
INVESTOR ACTIVISM, MANAGERIAL RESPONSIVENESS, AND CORPORATE SOCIAL PERFORMANCE (2007, unknown): “We also controlled for lagged values of CSP. Finally, we identified from IRRC publications whether sample firms were targeted by other stakeholder groups and set a dummy variable to 1 if targeted and 0 otherwise.”
Do Corporate Social Performance Targets in Executive Compensation Contribute to Corporate Social Performance? (2016, background): “Investor activism has an effect on broader corporate outcomes and stakeholder issues, such as the firm’s environmental impact (Lee and Lounsbury 2011; Reid and Toffel 2009) and its corporate social performance (CSP) (David et al. 2007; Rehbein et al. 2004).”
CSR Strategies in Response to Competitive Pressures (2018, background): “Social actions thusmight be initiated as an insurancemechanism, to protect against market reactions to negative business shocks (Minor 2011), social pressure from activists (Baron 2001, 2003; Heal 2005), or investors demanding responsibility (Graves et al. 2001; O’Rourke 2003; Rehbein et al. 2004; S”
It’s a Matter of Principle: The Role of Personal Values in Investment Decisions (2010, background): “In fact, findings indicate that instances of shareholder success in changing corporate policy have been limited to highly visible companies that have currently newsworthy business operations (Graves et al., 2001; Rehbein et al., 2004).”
Business under adverse home country institutions: The case of international sanctions against Myanmar (2020, background): “In particular, it increases with the size of the firm as bigger companies are more likely to be targeted by activists (Rehbein et al, 2004).”