Understanding Shareholder Activism: Which Corporations are Targeted?

Business & Society

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 239-267

  Rehbein, Kathleen ^a   Waddock, Sandra ^b   Graves, Samuel B ^b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate social performance; Investor Responsibility Research Center; KLD Socrates database; shareholder activism; shareholder resolutions; social responsibility; stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750076806     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650304266869     Document Type: Article

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