{"id":3860,"date":"2026-01-09T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financiallawinstitute.ugent.be\/?post_type=wps&#038;p=3860"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:01:17","slug":"ngos-and-other-stakeholders-groups-influence-as-participants-in-agms","status":"publish","type":"wps","link":"https:\/\/financiallawinstitute.ugent.be\/index.php\/wps\/ngos-and-other-stakeholders-groups-influence-as-participants-in-agms\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs and Other Stakeholders Groups\u2019 Influence as Participants in AGMs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NGOs and other stakeholders developed different kinds of interactions with companies. Many are at the same time shareholders of these companies, providing NGOs the same shareholder rights as other shareholders. Little is known about how NGOs and stakeholders make use of these rights. With different case studies this stakeholder behavior as shareholder is explored. First, their voting engagement and voting behavior is compared with that of institutional and retail investors showing both similarities and differences. Second, the NGOs\u2019 use of the question right in the general meeting is analysed and correlated with companies\u2019 commitments. Third, NGOs as initiator of shareholder proposals is studied. Those stakeholder initiated shareholder proposals are seldomly approved but the indirect investees\u2019 effects should not be underestimated. All cases show that NGOs and stakeholders\u2019 behavior as shareholders differs often from the other kinds of shareholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-3860","wps","type-wps","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financiallawinstitute.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wps\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financiallawinstitute.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wps"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financiallawinstitute.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wps"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financiallawinstitute.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financiallawinstitute.ugent.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}