Bringing dissent to shareholders’ meetings

An investigation into critical shareholding

Bibliographic Data

ID7542008
AuthorsJoselle Dagnes (0000-0001-9024-5594, University of Turin, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume12 (2
Pages23-50
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueANUAC (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2239-625X • E-ISSN: 2239-625X
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7340/anuac2239-625x-5104
OpenAlexW4399460117
LanguageEN
References cited31

This article deals with critical shareholding, that is, the action of non-profit organizations that resorts to involvement in corporate ownership as shareholders to promote socially responsible corporate behaviours. Based on the combined use of sociological and anthropological tools, I focus on the attendance of annual general meetings (AGMs) as a gateway to understand the potential and the limits of the transformative power of marginal actors in investment capitalism. My findings suggest that confrontation through share ownership exerts transformative pressures not only on companies but also on activist organizations, which over time are called to redefine their skills, actions and intervention logic to pursue their goals more effectively and report them to their stakeholders. Thus, the analysis of the phenomenon reveals the dialectical nature of the processes that take place in and around the AGM, giving them a place in the complex dynamics of movements and countermovements of finance and their mutual relationship

Attendance · Capitalism · Constructive · Corporate governance · Dialectic · Dissent · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Phenomenon · Political science · Public relations · Shareholder · Sociology · Transformative learning · Community Development and Social Impact · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Management and Organizational Studies

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