Koppell, Jonathan G S
Origins of Shareholder Advocacy
1. Shareholder Advocacy and the Development of the Corporation: The Timeless Dilemmas of an Age-old Solution
Jonathan G S Koppell
Part I. The Dutch East India Company and the Shareholder as Aggrieved Party
2. An Admiralty for Asia: Business Organization and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in the Dutch Republic, 1590–1640
Oscar Gelderblom, Abe Jong, Joost Jonker
3. Shareholder Activists
Johan Matthijs Jongh
4. The Great Expropriation: Interpreting the Innovation of “Permanent Capital” at the Dutch East India Company
Andrew Nordenflycht
Part II. Overcoming the Agency Challenge of Early Global Trade
5. Litigation Plus Regulation: The Protection of Investor Rights in Late-Medieval Venice
Yadira González Lara
6. Shareholder Activism in the Virginia Company of London, 1606–1624
Thomas Hall
7. Shareholders’ Rights in the Early Italian Companies: Agency Problems and Legal Strategies
Corrado Malberti
8.
Reza Dibadj
9. The Rise and Fall of the Rishengchang bank model: Limiting Shareholder Influence to Attract Capital
Randall Morck, Fan Yang
Part III. Shareholder Rights and the Growth of Industrial Economies
10. A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse
William N. Goetzmann, Sebastien Pouget
11. Corporate Governance and Stockholder/Stakeholder Activism in the United States, 1790–1860: New Data and Perspectives
Robert E. Wright, Richard Sylla
12. Origins of “Offensive” Shareholder Activism in the United States
John H. Armour, Brian R. Cheffins
13. Contemporary Issues in Shareholder Advocacy
Stephen Davis
Keywords: Social Sciences, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Investments and Securities, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Business Finance, Economic History
- Editor
- Koppell, Jonathan G S
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 306 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230116665
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-29072-7