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Médias sociaux : impact sur la gouvernance d’entreprise

Quel est l’impact des médias sociaux sur les médias sociaux ? Un article publié dans SSRN y répond : James S. Ang, Charles Hsu, Di Tang et Chaopeng Wu, « The Role of Social Media in Corporate Governance » (20 février 2020).

Résumé :

We examine whether social media criticisms posted by small investors can predict subsequent firm acquisition decisions. Specifically, we use textual analysis to examine the Internet stock message board postings of 303 value-reducing acquisition attempts.

Our empirical evidence shows that small investors’ negative postings are able to predict a potential acquirer’s subsequent decision to withdraw its attempt.

We further find that this predictive ability increases with the information quality of postings, and that the predictive information extracted from social media is incremental to that captured by proposal announcement returns, conventional media coverage, analyst reports, and institutional investors’ responses related to the proposed acquisition.

Finally, we show that message board criticisms are also able to predict governance outcomes beyond acquisition decisions.

Overall, our results are consistent with the notion that social media play a role in corporate governance by gathering crowd wisdom and uncovering additional value-relevant information.

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Médias sociaux et gouvernance : des liens démontrés

Bel article de MM. Beni Lauterbach et Anete Pajuste publié le 20 février 2017 sur le blogue Oxford Business Law Blog intitulé : « Does Media Pressure Propel Corporate Governance Improvements: The Case of Dual Class Share Unifications ». Ce travail de recherche revient sur le rôle des médias sociaux en matière de gouvernance d’entreprise en prenant l’illustration du capital-actions à classe multiple. Quels sont les enseignements des auteurs ? Clairement, les médias sociaux ont un rôle à jouer !

 

Our main conclusion is that media plays an important role in corporate governance promotion. Firms care for their reputation, which is a valuable asset for them; thus firms pay special attention to public opinion and media criticism. Some real firm decisions are influenced by firm image and reputation concerns, and the weight of these concerns probably only grow with the current ‘explosive’ advance of social media and its power.

Another interesting possible conclusion is that media is a powerful and flexible tool that in some cases can substitute for regulation in effectively restraining firms and their controlling shareholders.

 

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Ivan Tchotourian

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Corporate Use of Social Media

Intéressante étude sur l’utilisation des médias sociaux par les grandes entreprises américaines produite par Ahmed Tahoun, Clare Wang, James Naughton, Michael Jung sur le Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation : « Corporate Use of Social Media ». Comme le montre le tableau que j’ai reproduit, la thématique est plus que d’actualité !

 

Social media has transformed communications in many sectors of the U.S. economy. It is now used for disaster preparation and emergency response, security at major events, and public agencies are researching new uses in geolocation, law enforcement, court decisions, and military intelligence. Internationally, social media is credited for organizing political protests across the Middle East and a revolution in Egypt. In the business world, social media is considered a revolutionary sales and marketing platform and a powerful recruiting and networking channel. Little research exists, however, on how firms use social media to communicate financial information to investors and how investors respond to investor disseminated through social media, despite firms devoting considerable effort to creating and managing social media presences directed at investors. Motivated by this lack of research, in our paper, Corporate Use of Social Media, which was recently made publicly available on SSRN, we provide early large-sample evidence on the corporate use of social media for investor communications. More specifically, we investigate why firms choose to disseminate investor communications through social media, whether investors and traditional media outlets respond to social media disclosures, and whether potential adverse consequences to the firm exist from the use of social media to disseminate investor communications.

 

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Ivan Tchotourian