Corporate social responsibility and shareholder proposals

Eding, Erwin; Scholtens, Lambertus Johannes Regnerus

Abstract

We study how corporate social responsibility relates to investors, firms and shareholder proposals. We examine shareholder proposals on environmental, social, and governance issues at the annual general meeting of shareholders with US Fortune 250 firms during 2011-2014. We find that especially the probability of receiving shareholder proposals on environmental issues is positively associated with responsible institutional ownership. We find no systematic evidence that the outperformance regarding social responsibility of the firms themselves would significantly matter regarding the likelihood of shareholders filing proposals about corporate social responsibility, except for employee well-being.
Postprint
Peer reviewed

Date

2019-06-13

Type

Journal article

Identifier

oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/17885
Eding , E & Scholtens , L J R 2017 , ' Corporate social responsibility and shareholder proposals ' Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management , vol. 24 , no. 6 , pp. 648-660 . https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1434
1535-3958
PURE: 249953641
PURE UUID: 0bd7bbb0-811a-4ed9-881d-5a9e4cdb9f38
Scopus: 85035012496
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17885
https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1434

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Copyright © 2017, John Wiley & Sons Ltd and ERP Environment This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1434

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