Beyond just investing money in a company, shareholders invest their ideals and values when taking partial ownership of a company. Many companies have made voting easier and offer voting proxy by phone or over the internet. Shareholders can also become engaged by writing to corporations, attending annual stockholder meetings, filing proposals and lobbying. By monitoring companies, shareholders make it more likely thata board of directors, chairperson or CEO to act in such a way that demonstrates respect for their stakeholders. Corporations are in some respects moving from top-down to democratic governance, with shareholders as voting citizens .
Shareholders owe it to themselves to be informed of their companies rules of corporate governance.
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