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Active Ownership
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We analyze an extensive proprietary database of corporate social responsibility engagements with U.S. public companies from 1999–2009. Engagements address environmental, social, and governance concerns. Successful (unsuccessful) engagements are followed by positive (zero) abnormal returns. Companies with inferior governance and socially conscious institutional investors are more likely to be engaged. Success in engagements is more probable if the engaged firm has reputational concerns and higher capacity to implement changes. Collaboration among activists is instrumental in increasing the success rate of environmental/social engagements. After successful engagements, particularly on environmental/social issues, companies experience improved accounting performance and governance and increased institutional ownership.
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“These results are also similar to the typical anatomy of the engagement sequences analyzed in Dimson, Karakaş, and Li (2015), in which engagements most often start with discussions between management and shareholders and then potentially escalate depending on how the initial discussions are received.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dimson, E., Karakaş, O., & Li, X.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Boston College (US)
- Temple University (US)
- Venue
- Review of Financial Studies
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2015-08-12
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 3225-3268
- ISSN
- 0893-9454 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-7368
- OpenAlex
- W4248292788
- Cited by
- 1,242
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2026: 168 · 2025: 196 · 2024: 192 · 2023: 154 · 2022: 142 · 2021: 100 · 2020: 79 · 2019: 61 · 2018: 53 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 14
- FWCI
- 116.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- Locations
- Review of Financial Studies (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (acceptedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Temple University
- Inquire Europe
- Fox School of Business, Temple University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Corporate Finance and Governance
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
- Keywords
- shareholder activism, corporate social responsibility, institutional investors, environmental, social and governance issues, abnormal returns, corporate governance, institutional ownership, corporate reputation, accounting performance, public companies
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