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Ending The Irs As We Know It: Thoughts From Outside The Beltway, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.
Ending The Irs As We Know It: Thoughts From Outside The Beltway, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.
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Canada's Limitation Of Hate Speech: A Comparative Perspective, David H. Moore
Canada's Limitation Of Hate Speech: A Comparative Perspective, David H. Moore
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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 …