Where corporate governance is understood as centring on aligning shareholder interests with those of the corporation, it’s ...

Shareholder primacy is back. As for a society’s values, these are for public policy to take care of, not CEOs. The virtue economy has completely burst [in the US]. Many companies are cutting ...

At the same time, there is a clear winner — the concept of shareholder primacy. The idea, popularized by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman in 1970, is that corporate executives and boards have a ...

Professor Peter Swan discusses the Centre for Independent Studies’ new paper labelled ‘The Rise of Activist Corporations: How Activism Agendas Subsumed Shareholder Primacy’. “I noticed ...

It took a while, but shareholders are now paying a price for their primacy. Follow @rob_cyran, opens new tab on X (The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) ...

Even Mr. Shareholder Primacy himself, Milton Friedman, understood that highly engaged employees enhance shareholder returns. (Why American corporate titans have turned a willful blind eye to these ...

shareholder democracy is emerging as the middle ground among those favoring shareholder primacy—like Musk—and those backing stakeholder capitalism—like Fink. For much of the past decade ...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, a growing chorus of advocates and scholars have argued that corporations have a responsibility toward a number of different stakeholders, including their employees.

That’s what Milton Friedman said when he argued in favor of shareholder primacy back in 1970: In a free‐enterprise, private‐property system, a corporate executive is an employee of the ...

According to Strive's website, the firm's employees "live by a strict commitment to shareholder primacy - an unwavering mandate that the purpose of a for-profit corporation is to maximum long-run ...

This is often called shareholder primacy. Shareholder primacy may seem like common sense. Investors risk their own capital, so why shouldn’t they be rewarded? But share ownership is concentrated in ...

The revelation that Qantas allegedly sold 8000 tickets on flights that had already been cancelled, and property developer Tim Gurner’s callous remarks about workers, have led to renewed calls ...