Shareholders and Stakeholders: How Do Directors Decide?
51 Pages Posted: 8 Feb 2010 Last revised: 23 Jul 2012
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Shareholders and Stakeholders: How Do Directors Decide?
Shareholders and Stakeholders: How Do Directors Decide?
Date Written: March 2010
Abstract
This study investigates how directors make decisions that involve shareholders and other stakeholders. Using vignettes derived from seminal court cases, we construct an index of directors’ shareholderism as a general orientation on this issue. In a survey of the entire population of directors and CEOs in public corporations in one country, we find that directors’ personal values and roles play an important part in their decisions. Directors and CEOs are more pro-shareholder the more they endorse entrepreneurial values - specifically, higher achievement, power, and self-direction values and lower universalism values. While employee representative directors exhibit a lower baseline level of shareholder orientation, they nonetheless often side with shareholders.
Keywords: Corporate Governance, Shareholderism, Stakeholders, Values
JEL Classification: K22, M14
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