Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Corporate Ownership and Control
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Abstract
© 2015, Virtus Interpress. All rights reserved. The paper outlines shareholder activism development in common law and civil law countries and identifies features of these legal systems that create preconditions and obstacles for shareholder activism. Our findings show that tendencies of shareholder activism depend on the type of the legal system, but also vary within the countries that share the same legal system. Thus, we conclude that the type of legal system is not the chief determinant of shareholder activism. A comparative analysis of shareholder activism in Germany and Ukraine (civil law countries) and the USA and the UK (common law countries) shows that the system of domestic corporate regulation, development of the stock market, companies’ capitalization and corporate governance influence the development of shareholder activism in equal measure.
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ISSN
Publisher
Virtus Interpress
Volume
13
Issue
1CONT5
First Page
520
Last Page
533
Disciplines
Business
Keywords
Civil law, Common law, Corporate governance, Hedge funds, Shareholder activism
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Raja, Khurram and Kostyuk, Alex, "Perspectives and obstacles of the shareholder activism implementation: A comparative analysis of civil and common law systems" (2015). All Works. 2678.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/2678
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yes
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Hybrid: This publication is openly available in a subscription-based journal/series