scholarly journals Could the impaired intention of ethical investment be recovered?

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 736-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiung-Yao Huang ◽  
Yu-Cheng Lin ◽  
Chiung-Hui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Shareholder Wealth ◽  
Moral Intensity ◽  
Ethical Investment ◽  
Remedial Measures ◽  
British Petroleum ◽  
Wealth Maximization ◽  
Shareholder Wealth Maximization ◽  
Classical Economic ◽  
Ethical Investments

AbstractThe environmental pollution caused by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering in October 2013 in Taiwan highlighted the fact that foreign investors tend to support the classical economic ideas of arbitrage and shareholder wealth maximization, which is in conflict with the fact that institutional investors in the current global capital market lean towards the stakeholder theory in ethical investments. Will local investors’ decision-making also be influenced by differences in the perceived ethics of negative environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR)? Compared to the remedial measures implemented by British Petroleum for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, another international corporation, decided to not respond to any news regarding the toxic wastewater incident. In contrast, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering only made clearer promises after extreme public pressure. This study investigated whether remedial measures for negative ECSR are an important factor influencing investors’ decisions. The purpose is to clarify the interactions among perceived moral intensity of negative ECSR, the implementation of remedial measures, and the intention of ethical investment. An experimental design was employed to test the hypotheses. The results indicated that perceived moral intensity has a significant negative impact on the intention of ethical investment. The implementation of remedial measures for negative ECSR affects investors’ intent to invest. Finally, positive ECSR remedial measures also serve as a key moderating variable in the relationship between perceived moral intensity and the intention of ethical investment. This study clarified whether the provision of remedial mechanisms can effectively recover or maintain investor investment intent when companies experience negative ECSR.

scholarly journals Shareholder Wealth Maximization Under Leveraged Buyouts

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
William J. Bertin ◽  
Khalil M. Torabzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Shareholder Wealth ◽  
Leveraged Buyouts ◽  
Excess Returns ◽  
Leveraged Buyout ◽  
Wealth Maximization ◽  
Shareholder Wealth Maximization ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the possible excess returns to stockholders arising from leveraged buyout transactions in an effort to determine whether or not such transactions are consistent with shareholder wealth maximization. In addition, the excess returns generated through leveraged buyouts are compared to those associated with typical, non-leveraged acquisitions. The implications of these comparisons are discussed with a special emphasis on the impact of leveraged buyouts upon investors wealth. The major finding of this study is that shareholder wealth is increased, but not necessarily maximized, under leveraged buyouts.

Beyond Shareholder Wealth Maximization

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Chapman Findlay ◽  
G. A. Whitmore
Keyword(s):  
Shareholder Wealth ◽  
Wealth Maximization ◽  
Shareholder Wealth Maximization

Stakeholder Happiness Enhancement: A Neo-Utilitarian Objective for the Modern Corporation

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Jones ◽  
Will Felps
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Shareholder Wealth ◽  
Wealth Maximization ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Modern Corporation ◽  
Corporate Objective ◽  
Sequential Logic ◽  
Shareholder Wealth Maximization ◽  
Specific Alternative ◽  
Refined Version

ABSTRACT:Employing utilitarian criteria, Jones and Felps, in “Shareholder Wealth Maximization and Social Welfare: A Utilitarian Critique” (Business Ethics Quarterly 23[2]: 207–38), examined the sequential logic leading from shareholder wealth maximization to maximal social welfare and uncovered several serious empirical and conceptual shortcomings. After rendering shareholder wealth maximization seriously compromised as an objective for corporate operations, they provided a set of criteria regarding what a replacement corporate objective would look like, but do not offer a specific alternative. In this article, we draw on neo-utilitarian thought to advance a refined version of normative stakeholder theory that we believe addresses a major remaining criticism of extant versions, their lack of specificity. More particularly, we provide a single-valued objective function for the corporation—stakeholder happiness enhancement—that would allow managers to make principled choices between/among policy options when stakeholder interests conflict.

Sustainable Corporations in Non-Financial Sectors Through Optimal Design of Executive Pay

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 715-748
Author(s):  
David Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Limited Liability ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Shareholder Wealth ◽  
Incentive Pay ◽  
Executive Pay ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Wealth Maximization ◽  
Shareholder Wealth Maximization ◽  
The Impact

It is commonplace in current legal scholarship that pay packages for executives that were not tied to the impact of these executives' policies on shareholder wealth maximization often caused harm to shareholder interests and their companies, especially in the long term. The no-pay-without-performance postulate is as old as the first global economic crisis of the 20thcentury – the deep depression. Since then, this postulate has been repeated and substantiated innumerous times by the majority of experts in corporate law and business economics, but without real success. There are, however, commentators who deny the existence of a link between skewed incentive pay, excessive risk-taking, and financial losses. They instead insist on the superiority of the traditional director-centric model of corporate governance, which would allegedly preserve the balance that has generally worked well between the limited role and limited liability of shareholders and the active role, fiduciary duties, and potential liability of managers, which allegedly renders additional executive pay regulation unnecessary.

scholarly journals Shareholder Wealth Maximization and Investment Decisions of Nigerian Food and Beverage Companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Olayinka Abideen Shodiya ◽  
Wasiu Abiodun Sanyaolu ◽  
Joseph Olushola Ojenike ◽  
Gbadebo Tirimisiyu Ogunmefun
Keyword(s):  
Market Price ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Shareholder Wealth ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Wealth Maximization ◽  
Earnings Per Share ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Shareholder Wealth Maximization ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract The study examines the effect of shareholder wealth maximization on investment decision in food and beverage companies listed in Nigeria. To achieve this, seven listed food and beverage companies were selected. The research adopted an ex post facto research design, while purposeful and stratified sampling techniques were used to select seven out of the fifteen companies in the food and beverage subsector. Data for the study were extracted from the annual reports and accounts of the sampled companies from 2008–2017. The result obtained from the regression analysis reveals that earnings per share and market price per share have no significant positive effect on investment decisions, while dividend per share was found to have no significant negative effect on investment decisions. In effect, the study concludes that the unique combination of the identified proxies for shareholder wealth maximization have jointly a significant positive effect on investment decisions. Arising from this, the study recommends that food and beverage companies should improve more on earnings per share, dividend per share, and market price per share so as to attract more investment from shareholders.

Perfectionist decision-making style and ethical investment willingness

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 534-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Cheng Lin ◽  
Chiung-Yao Huang ◽  
Yu-Shan Wei
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Moral Intensity ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Ethical Investment ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ethical Investments

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the ethical investment willingness decision-making process to understand how investors evaluate corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a survey of 298 individual investors and analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings Results reveal that perfectionist decision-making style is positively related to perceived moral intensity, substitutability of financial returns, and ethical investment willingness. In addition, perceived moral intensity and substitutability of financial returns are positively related to ethical investment willingness. Finally, perceived moral intensity is positively related to substitutability of financial returns, and a two-factor causal mediation model is supported. Research limitations/implications The limitation of this study was that the pre-tests and sampling methods required all participants to have investing experience; however, procurement of trading information for each investor was impossible; thus, actual investment behaviors were undetermined. This study shed light on the mediating roles of perceived moral intensity and the substitutability of financial returns. Future studies can further investigate the factors influencing perceived moral intensity and the substitutability of financial returns. Practical implications Future ethical investment education can focus on cultivate the ability to distinguish ethical investments and change ethical investment willingness into actual investment behavior. Originality/value Understanding the relationship between these variables can help understand why ethical investment willingness varies among investors and how the traditional financial theory investment decision model should be revised as, internationally, more people have begun to observe CSR and sustainable development.

scholarly journals An empirical investigation of the goals of listed firms on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-88
Author(s):  
Johan K. Bosch ◽  
Alwyn P. Du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Shareholder Wealth ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Goal Structure ◽  
Wealth Maximization ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Johannesburg Stock Exchange ◽  
Shareholder Wealth Maximization

In economics and finance it is often assumed that firms merely seek the maximization of shareholder wealth. In order to test this hypothesis an empirical investigation on the goal structure of firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange was performed with special reference to the relative importance of the concept of shareholder wealth maximization and social responsibility of the firm.The responses indicated that the wealth maximization hypothesis tested in this survey appears to be applicable for the firms which participated, albeit not always in terms of all the possible parameters of the wealth maximization hypothesis.

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