Investor Relations

Boatright, John R.

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“…Indeed, the IR professional's role has been described as one designed to “signal their (corporation's) commitment to investors” with the primary purpose being to “coordinate the disclosure data to investors and analysts and rationalize the management of shareholders” (Rao and Sivakumar , p. 39) in a purposeful effort to facilitate, supplement, and support the free flow of information. As of 2008, 97 percent of Fortune 500 firms had a designated IR department (Williams and Ryan ), and this department now plays more of a facilitator role, as opposed to their previous compliance‐based role (Osgood ), sitting at the nexus of the set of PSFs that depend upon the IR professional for vital information in order to perform their service.…”

Section: Investor Relations Professionals Psfs and Conflicts Of Intmentioning

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Masquerading in the U.S. Capital Markets: The Dark Side of Maintaining an Institution

Clark

Newell

2013

Business and Society Review

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This article examines the work of professional service firms (PSFs) in their relationships with public corporations; work that is designed to ensure that investors and potential investors have information that will enable them to participate in the capital markets. Using an institutional theory lens, we view these efforts by PSFs as institutional maintenance work and specifically analyze their work related to policing (i.e., rating), enabling (i.e., tutoring), and embedding and routinizing (i.e., collaborating) that helps to support the capital market as a core institution in society. We illustrate how there is a "dark" side to each of these forms of institutional work that exists because of ongoing conflicts of interest within and between their work practices. This dark side has the unintended consequence of producing often biased information or information unavailable to many. When a crisis brings this bias to light, some repair is introduced but often not enough to alleviate the distortion. Our Cynthia E. Clark is an Assistant Professor,

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Section: Investor Relations Professionals Psfs and Conflicts Of Intmentioning

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Masquerading in the U.S. Capital Markets: The Dark Side of Maintaining an Institution

Clark

Newell

2013

Business and Society Review

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Deconstructing the Relationship Between Corporate Social and Financial Performance

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For four decades, research on the role and responsibilities of business in society has centered on the business case for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and an increasing number of studies on the corporate social performance (CSP)—corporate financial performance (CFP) link emerged leading to controversial results.Heeding the call for a deeper understanding of the mechanisms linking certain CSR efforts to certain performance outcomes, this study provides a stakeholder-based organizing framework rooted in an extensive review of existing literature on the link between CSP and CFP. In so doing, we aim at guiding research and practice toward less simplistic understandings of the CSP–CFP connection, thus advancing the debate over the consequences of voluntary integrating CSR into business operations and into relationships with stakeholders. By disentangling specific drivers and outcomes of the CSP–CFP link, we underline the importance of setting clear boundaries and specifying levels of analysis to generate comparable results

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Boards and Shareholders: Bridging the Divide

Burke¹,

Clark²

2015

Shareholder Empowerment

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Investor Relations

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

Masquerading in the U.S. Capital Markets: The Dark Side of Maintaining an Institution

Masquerading in the U.S. Capital Markets: The Dark Side of Maintaining an Institution

Deconstructing the Relationship Between Corporate Social and Financial Performance

Boards and Shareholders: Bridging the Divide

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