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30 - The Global Diffusion of Stewardship Codes
from Part III - Comparisons
- By Dionysia Katelouzou, Mathias Siems
Edited by Dionysia Katelouzou, King's College London, Dan W. Puchniak, National University of Singapore
Book:

Global Shareholder Stewardship

Published online:

28 April 2022

Print publication:

12 May 2022, pp 631-662
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Summary

In today’s world, the transfer of laws and regulations between different legal systems is commonplace. The global spread of stewardship codes in recent years presents a promising, but yet untested, terrain to explore the diffusion of such norms. This Chapter aims to fill this gap. Employing the method of content analysis and using information from 41 stewardship codes enacted between 1991 and 2019, we systematically examine the formal diffusion of these stewardship codes. While we find support for the diffusion story of the UK as a stewardship norm exporter, especially in former British colonies in Asia, we also find evidence of diffusion from transnational initiatives, such as the EFAMA and ICGN codes, as well as regional clusters. We also show that the UK Stewardship Code of 2020 now deviates from these current models; thus, it remains to be seen how far a second round of exportation of the revised UK model into the transnational arena will follow.