View Thread

Dear colleagues,

We'd like to invite you to attend our presenter symposium "Shareholder Activism and Societal Challenges" at AOM this year.

With contributions from: Maria Goranova, Margarethe Wiersema, Jerry Davis, organized by John Amis and me.

Time and Loation

📅 Sunday, Aug 11 2024
⏲ 10:30 AM - 12:00PM CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
📌 Marriott: Armitage

Description

This presenter symposium engages with the overarching question of how Shareholder Activism affects Societal Challenges. While shareholder activism research has gained popularity in recent years, still too little is known about its effects on broader societal problems such as climate change or economic inequalities. Especially when accounting for the substantial increase in ownership concentration of assets over recent years, that are managed by fewer and ever more powerful investors, there is still much to be explored. Investors have been successful in using shareholder activism to bring about organizational change, reshape priorities of target firms, and affect their agenda on climate change and other societal outcomes in various ways. In this symposium, we will unpack the inherent complexity of this topic, understand more about specific types of institutional investors, and discuss how it affects the agenda of firms when some of their largest investors are simultaneously invested in their market competitors.

Would be great to see many of you there. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with me (t.trapp@ed.ac.uk).

AOM 2024

------------------------------
Torben Trapp
University of Edinburgh Business School
Edinburgh
------------------------------