The false hope of stewardship in the context of controlling shareholders: Making sense out of the global transplant of a legal misfit

• Main Author: PUCHNIAK, Dan W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Shareholder Stewardship; Controlling Shareholders; Comparative Corporate Law and Governance; Institutional Investors; Legal Transplants; ESG; Business Organizations Law; Comparative and Foreign Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4380; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6338/viewcontent/SSRN_id3858339.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In 2010, the United Kingdom issued the world’s first stewardship code. Since then, stewardship codes have been issued in many of the world’s leading economies and now exist in 20 jurisdictions on six continents, with more jurisdictions considering adopting them. In the UK, stewardship codes were pro...