SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM AND PUBLICATION OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING MINUTES ONLINE: EVIDENCE FROM MALAYSIAN LISTED COMPANIES

Minutes of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting.

The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society was held in Pardington Hall at the Nyack Missionary College on the shores of the Hudson River, Nyack New York, Wednesday, December 30th, and Thursday, December 31st. More than 100 delegates and visitors were in attendance. Because of distance, most of the participants came from our New England, Eastern, and Mid-Western sections...

Abstracts, The 13th Annual General Meeting of ARCCNM, Osaka, Japan

Soft Shareholder Activism

This paper studies voice and exit as mechanisms of shareholder activism when obtaining costly formal control is not feasible. Different from the existing literature, voice is interpreted as a strategic transmission of information from an activist investor to an opportunistic manager. The analysis provides several results. First, voice and exit exhibit complementarity, and hence, exit can be an ...

Local Taxation and Firm Employment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies∗

This paper examines the effects of province corporate income tax policies on firm employment. It uses A-share listed Chinese firms’ panel data for 2004 to 2014. To control for unobservable time-varying province characteristics, we employ a quadratic function of time to approximate the effect of time-varying province heterogeneity. We also construct an instrumental variable to deal with the pote...

Information Systems and Firm Competence: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies

By using unbalanced panel data set for 76 firms in Chinese listed companies, this paper empirically study the relationship between information systems and firm competence under Chinese context with GLS regression method. This study draws such conclusions: (1) in the short term, the use of information systems has statistically significant negative impact on firm competence. (2) In the short term...