Big corporations are trying to silence their own shareholders

Authors

David H. Webber, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-13-2017

ISSN

0190-8286

Publisher

Fred Ryan

Language

en-US

Abstract

Corporate lobbyists at the Business Roundtable — led by JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon — are heralding an effort to sharply limit the ability of investors to have a say in their companies through shareholder proposals. If successful, it will reduce stockholders’ ability to shape the companies they own and hold corporate managers accountable. As with political voting rights, these corporate voter-suppression efforts demonstrate that even the most basic rights need constant vigilance to protect them.

Recommended Citation

David H. Webber, Big corporations are trying to silence their own shareholders , in Washington Post (2017).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/133

SSRN URL

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3925217

Publisher URL

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voter-suppression--corporate-style/2017/04/13/bbe62880-1ed5-11e7-be2a-3a1fb24d4671_story.html