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What's Wrong with Shareholder Empowerment?


Bernard S. Sharfman


Case Western Reserve University School of Law

March 8, 2012

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 903-909, 2012

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In his keynote address at the Journal of Corporation Law spring banquet (March 8, 2012), Mr. Sharfman discusses the negative impact shareholder empowerment has on the efficiency of decision making at public companies. Shareholder empowerment is the shifting of decision making from the board of directors and executive management to shareholders.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 7

Keywords: corporate law, corporate governance, public company, authority, accountability, private ordering, liquidity traders, information traders, shareholder empowerment, board of directors, agency costs

JEL Classification: K22

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Date posted: March 9, 2012 ; Last revised: July 20, 2012

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Sharfman, Bernard S., What's Wrong with Shareholder Empowerment? (March 8, 2012). Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 903-909, 2012 . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2018715

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Bernard S. Sharfman (Contact Author)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law ( email )
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-7148
United States
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