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Shareholder Activists Avant la Lettre: The “Complaining Participants” in the Dutch East India Company, 1622–1625

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Origins of Shareholder Advocacy

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Redde Rationem Villicationis Tuae! Give an Account of Your Stewardship! There was a rich man whose steward was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, “What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, because you cannot be manager any longer” (Luke 16. 1–2).1

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de Jongh, J.M. (2011). Shareholder Activists Avant la Lettre: The “Complaining Participants” in the Dutch East India Company, 1622–1625. In: Koppell, J.G.S. (eds) Origins of Shareholder Advocacy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230116665_3

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