In Recent Years Shareholders Have Increasingly Attempted to Use Shareholders

question 12

Essay

In recent years shareholders have increasingly attempted to use shareholders' meetings as a forum to encourage corporations to operate in accordance with the views of one or some shareholders with respect to various policy issues.Common examples include environmental issues and human rights issues,especially for corporations with operations in other nations.Is this a proper forum for this particular type of activity? What are the arguments on each side of the issue? What other methods could these shareholders use to promote the viewpoints on these issues?

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Definitions:

Rational Expression

An expression that can be written as a fraction where both the numerator and the denominator are polynomials.

Rational Function

A rational function is a ratio of two polynomials, where the denominator polynomial is not zero, used to describe relations that involve rates of change.

Undefined

A term used to describe an expression or result that does not have a meaningful value under given conditions, such as division by zero.

Divide

The operation of partitioning a number or algebraic expression by another, which essentially measures how many times the divisor fits into the dividend, mathematically.