Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Can shareholder activism impact corp governance?


Shareholder activism is fairly mainstream when it comes to globalized economies or developed world. But what about India?

Excerpts from an interview with CNBC-TV18's Shereen Bhan:

Q: You write about a lot of this stuff, we have seen shareholder activism being fairly maintstream abroad in international markets in fact the former CEO of Deutsche Borse has actually written a book about the invasion of locusts as he called it. But in India it really has not taken off, why do you think that is the case?

Dalal: Absolutely, it has not taken off because there are not enough of investor associations that are operating in the country. I am part of some investors associations and consumer groups and I can say very honestly that we have not been able to deliver results to investors.

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