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The Distant Shareholder: Attenuated Investment and the Diffusion of Social Concerns

In: A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950

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  • Janette Rutterford

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This chapter explores the development of a “nation of shareholders” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It considers how and why investor expanded their range of investments from local to regional and from national to international. In particular, the chapter explores the increasing importance of investment in this period through the lens of geography, focussing on the relationship between distance, shareholding, and supply and demand for securities, both domestic, colonial and foreign. It then examines some of the implications that the geography of shareholding raises for understanding both individual investor behaviour and its impact on corporate governance.

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  • Janette Rutterford, 2017. "The Distant Shareholder: Attenuated Investment and the Diffusion of Social Concerns," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: William A Pettigrew & David Chan Smith (ed.), A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950, chapter 0, pages 157-188, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-3-319-60146-5_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60146-5_7
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