Full Description
All over the world, companies play an important role in the economy. Different types of stakeholders hold the reins in these companies. An important class are the shareholders that finance the activities of these companies. In return, stakeholders have a say on how these companies should be organized and structure their activities. This is primarily done through voting and engaging. These mechanisms of voting and engaging allow the shareholders to decide significant aspects of the company structure, from who governs it to how much directors are paid. However, how shareholders vote and engage and how far their rights stretch are organized differently in different countries. This pioneering book provides insights into what rights these shareholders have and how the shareholders of companies in nineteen different jurisdictions participate in corporate life through voting and engaging. Comparative and international in scope, it pays particular attention to how jurisdictions align and differ around the world.
Contents
Introduction: 1. Shareholder voting and engagement: an introduction Chao Xi and Anne Lafarre; Part I. Asia: 2.Shareholder voting and engagement in China Chao Xi; 3. Shareholder engagement and voting in Hong Kong Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin; 4. Shareholder engagement and voting in India Harpreet Kaur; 5. Corporate governance and shareholder engagement practices in Indonesia: a shifting paradigm Ulya Yasmine Prisandani and Kartika Paramita; 6. Shareholder engagement and voting in Japan Gen Goto; 7. Shareholder engagement and voting in Singapore Wai Yee Wan; 8. Shareholder engagement and voting in South Korea Seung Young Yoon; 9. Shareholder voting and engagement in Taiwan Chang-Hsien Tsai and Chao-Tsung Huang; Part II. Australia and North America: 10. Shareholder engagement and voting in Australia Roman Tomasic and Anil Hargovan; 11. Shareholder engagement and voting in Canada Poonam Puri and Ankita Gupta; 12. Shareholder engagement in the United States Vikramaditya S. Khanna; Part III. Europe: 13. Shareholder democracy in Denmark: contrasting law on the books and law in practice Hanne S. Birkmose and Karsten Engsig Sørensen; 14. Shareholder engagement and voting in France Christoph Van der Elst; 15. Shareholder engagement in Germany Florian Möslein and Christopher Rennig; 16. Shareholder engagement and voting in Greece Vassilis Tountopoulos and Rigas Giovannopoulos; 17. Shareholder engagement and voting in Italy Gaia Balp and Giovanni Strampelli; 18. Shareholder voting and engagement in Norway Berte-Elen Konow; 19. Shareholder voting and engagement in the Netherlands: the Dutch institutional approach Anne Lafarre; 20. Shareholder engagement and voting in the United Kingdom Suren Gomtsyan; Part IV. Comparative Perspectives: 21. Shareholder engagement and corporate voting in a comparative perspective Anne Lafarre; 22. Shareholder engagement and corporate voting in action: the comparative perspective Christoph Van der Elst; 23. Shareholder engagement and voting: where does the future lie? Chao Xi.
