Shareholders of the world united?: Organized Labour's Preferences on Corporate Governance under Pension Fund Capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom and France
Shareholders of the world united?: Organized Labour's Preferences on Corporate Governance under Pension Fund Capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom and France
This article considers whether organized labour’s engagement with shareholder activism represents a shift in unions’ traditional stakeholder preferences on corporate governance under pension fund capitalism. It does so in light of recent critiques of the class power thesis of corporate governance which suggest greater fluidity and fragmentation in labour’s approach. Adopting a diverse case study strategy to compare organized labour’s actions in the United States, United Kingdom and France, the paper explains these activities as innovative strategies, similar to other revitalization initiatives, designed to advance traditional agendas by alternative means. The paper thus concludes that, while organized labour’s shareholder activism is unexpected under the class power thesis, its core preferences remain largely unchanged.
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Bridgen, Paul
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Naczyk, Marek
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1 January 2019
Bridgen, Paul
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Naczyk, Marek
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Bridgen, Paul and Naczyk, Marek
(2019)
Shareholders of the world united?: Organized Labour's Preferences on Corporate Governance under Pension Fund Capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom and France.
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 57 (3), .
(doi:10.1111/bjir.12424).
Abstract
This article considers whether organized labour’s engagement with shareholder activism represents a shift in unions’ traditional stakeholder preferences on corporate governance under pension fund capitalism. It does so in light of recent critiques of the class power thesis of corporate governance which suggest greater fluidity and fragmentation in labour’s approach. Adopting a diverse case study strategy to compare organized labour’s actions in the United States, United Kingdom and France, the paper explains these activities as innovative strategies, similar to other revitalization initiatives, designed to advance traditional agendas by alternative means. The paper thus concludes that, while organized labour’s shareholder activism is unexpected under the class power thesis, its core preferences remain largely unchanged.
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Accepted/In Press date: 4 June 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 9 July 2018
Published date: 1 January 2019
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/420461
ISSN: 0007-1080
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