Shareholders as a strategic asset

California Management Review

Volumn , Issue 1, 1996, Pages 8-27

  Useem, Michael ^a  

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EID: 0030351877     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41165874     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. This article is drawn from Michael Useem, Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America (Basic Books/HarperCollins, 1996).
2. Peter F. Drucker, The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism Came to America (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1976).
3. "America's Top 300 Money Managers," Institutional Investor (July 1996), pp. 57-92.
4. The data are reported in annual editions of Business Week.
5. Data on shareholder resolutions are drawn from William F. Sander, Shareholding Voting Almanac (Washington, D.C.: Investor Responsibility Research Center, 1991) and more recent information releases by the Investor Responsibility Research Center, Washington, D.C.
6. Gerald Davis, "Agents without Principles? The Spread of the Poison Pill through the Intercorporate Network," Administrative Science Quarterly, 36 (1991): 583 613.
7. Unless otherwise noted, quoted materials are derived from personal interviews and observation of company managers. Sources are detailed in Useem, op. cit., pp. 8-9, 291-293.
8. Management practices are akin to those developed for bringing the voice of the customer or market into the firm. See, for instance, George S. Day, "Continuous Learning About Markets." California Management Review, 36/4 (Summer 1994): 9-31; and Robert E. Cole, Paul Bacdayan, and B. Joseph White, "Quality, Participation, and Competitiveness," California Management Review, 35/3 (Spring 1993): 68-81.
9. Management practices are akin to those developed for bringing the voice of the customer or market into the firm. See, for instance, George S. Day, "Continuous Learning About Markets." California Management Review, 36/4 (Summer 1994): 9-31; and Robert E. Cole, Paul Bacdayan, and B. Joseph White, "Quality, Participation, and Competitiveness," California Management Review, 35/3 (Spring 1993): 68-81.
10. Michael Y. Yoshino and U. Srinivasa Rangan, Strategic Alliances: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Globalization (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1995); Jordan D. Lewis, The Connected Corporation: How Leading Companies Win Through Customer-Supplier Alliances (New York, NY: Free Press, 1995).
11. Michael Y. Yoshino and U. Srinivasa Rangan, Strategic Alliances: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Globalization (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1995); Jordan D. Lewis, The Connected Corporation: How Leading Companies Win Through Customer-Supplier Alliances (New York, NY: Free Press, 1995).
12. Investor Relations Update (January 1993), p. 10.