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- The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting
- The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- In Memoriam
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Asia
- 2 Shareholder Voting and Engagement in China
- 3 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in Hong Kong
- 4 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in India
- 5 Corporate Governance and Shareholder Engagement Practices in Indonesia: A Shifting Paradigm
- 6 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in Japan
- 7 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in Singapore
- 8 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in South Korea
- 9 Shareholder Voting and Engagement in Taiwan
- Part II Australia and North America
- Part III Europe
- Part IV Comparative Perspectives
- Index
9 - Shareholder Voting and Engagement in Taiwan
from Part I - Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 September 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting
- The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- In Memoriam
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Asia
- 2 Shareholder Voting and Engagement in China
- 3 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in Hong Kong
- 4 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in India
- 5 Corporate Governance and Shareholder Engagement Practices in Indonesia: A Shifting Paradigm
- 6 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in Japan
- 7 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in Singapore
- 8 Shareholder Engagement and Voting in South Korea
- 9 Shareholder Voting and Engagement in Taiwan
- Part II Australia and North America
- Part III Europe
- Part IV Comparative Perspectives
- Index
Summary
Instead of relying on private ordering, the corporate governance in Taiwan has been developed mostly through government regulations. Starting with the brief introduction of Taiwan’s Company Act (CA) and corporate governance in practice, this chapter explores the legal means available for shareholder engagement under the CA: the right to call a shareholder meeting, proposal right, voting and information right, focusing on shareholders’ participation and voting in the shareholder meeting. Also, this chapter illustrates the current landscape of shareholder activism in Taiwan, observing that most activists pay more attention to the interaction with the management in the shareholder meeting, than to behind-the-scene engagements to achieve their goals, despite anecdotal evidence of the aforementioned engagements. Nonetheless, with the securities authority’s promotion of shareholder activism, this chapter notes the increase of shareholder activism events, demonstrating harbingers for the change of Taiwanese corporate governance in practice.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting , pp. 165 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022