Origins of Shareholder Advocacy

Introduction: Shareholder Advocacy: Historical Bedrock of Corporate Governance J.Koppell, et al DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE SHAREHOLDER AS AGGRIEVED PARTY Putting Le Maire into Perspective: Business Organization and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1640; A.de Jong, O.Gelderblom, & J.Jonker Shareholder Activists Avant La Lettre: The 'Complaining Participants' in the Dutch East India Company; J.Matthijs de Jongh The Great Expropriation: Understanding the Innovation of Permanent Capital in the Dutch and English East India Companies; A.Von Nordenflycht OVERCOMING THE AGENCY CHALLENGE OF EARLY GLOBAL TRADE The Rise and Fall of the Rishengchang Bank Model: Limiting Shareholder Influence to Attract Capital; R.Morck & F.Young Institutions, Information, and Contracts: From Debt to Equity in Late Medieval Venice; Y.Gonzalez de Lara Shareholders' Rights in the Early Italian Companies: Agency Problems and Legal Strategies; C.Malberti Compagnie des Indes, Governance and Bailout; R.Dibadj Shareholder Activism in the Virginia Company of London, 1606 - 1624; T.W.Hall SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMIES Corporate Governance and Stockholder/Stakeholder Activism in the United States, 1790-1860: New Data and Perspectives; R.Sylla & R.E.Wright Origins of 'Offensive' Shareholder Activism in the United States; J.H.Armour & B.R.Cheffins Contemporary Issues in Shareholder Advocacy; S.Davis