Under the spotlight: Institutional investors and firm responses to the Council of Institutional Investors' Annual Focus List

Strategic Organization

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-135

  Ward, Andrew J ^a   Brown, Jill A ^b   Graffin, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Certifications; Corporate governance; Governance mechanisms; Shareholder activism; Third party quality signals

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449177255     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127009102667     Document Type: Article

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