When it comes to dealing with shareholder activism, management has to quantify the costs as well as the time and energy consumed in its response. In all these respects, it is unlikely that management can win. It is spending money on lawyers and advisors and remains distracted from the day-to-day running of the company. And so at the end of the day, it generally succumbs to the minority shareholder’s gentle coercion, in polite terms, but what is, in essence, blackmail, in order to do what is best for the company or at least move on. A small company, in particular is doomed to this fate.
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