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Socially Responsible Investment: How Shareholders Change Their Role within the Capitalism Paradigm

In: Capitalism and the Social Relationship

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  • Celine Gainet

    (Sorbonne University)

Abstract

From the perspective of a historical analysis of capitalism, Batsch (2002) proposes three successive phases of capitalism: a ‘family capitalism’ in which large companies are controlled by large families, succeeded by a ‘managerial capitalism’ in which economic power is held by managers without firm ownership (Berle & Means, 1932), and finally a ‘financial capitalism,’ which emerged at the beginning of the 1980s in the Unites States. Financial capitalism denounced the manager full powers and placed them under scrutiny. Since then, shareholder power has overtaken manager power. The continuous developments in capital markets have reinforced shareholders’ predominance. The privatization of formerly state-owned firms in Germany, France, and other European nations has also helped to force managers and board directors to pay more attention to profitability and shareholder returns (Davis et al., 2006). Nowadays, the roles that shareholders play in the economy are broader than ever.

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  • Celine Gainet, 2014. "Socially Responsible Investment: How Shareholders Change Their Role within the Capitalism Paradigm," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Hamid Kazeroony & Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch (ed.), Capitalism and the Social Relationship, chapter 11, pages 183-196, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-32570-9_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137325709_11
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