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Corporate Governance And Managerial Incompetence: Lessons From Kmart, D. Gordon Smith
Corporate Governance And Managerial Incompetence: Lessons From Kmart, D. Gordon Smith
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Modern corporate governance scholars often extol an activist role by institutional investors in directing corporate activity. Widely viewed as a solution to the collective action problems that inhibit such activism by individual investors, institutional investors are praised for adding value to corporations through their participation in the decision making process. The ouster of Joseph Antonini as Chief Executive Officer of Kmart Corporation in 1995 might be taken as a vindication of this view, because substantial evidence indicates that institutional investors played a crucial role in influencing Kmart's board of directors to remove him. In this Article, Professor Smith challenges this …
Proprietary Norms In Corporate Law: An Essay On Reading Gambotto In The United States, Deborah A. Demott
Proprietary Norms In Corporate Law: An Essay On Reading Gambotto In The United States, Deborah A. Demott
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