“End of Directors' Rubber Stamp,”Business Week (10 September 1979), p. 72.
2.
See, for example, “Mounting Pressures on Corporate Directors,”Fortune (11 February 1980), inside front cover.
3.
The figures presented here vary slightly from those contained in a comprehensive article on shareholder complaints published earlier because this article is based on data for two additional years (1977–1978). See JonesThomas M., “What's Bothering Those Shareholder-Plaintiffs?”California Management Review (Summer 1980).
4.
This article summarizes the results of an extensive study of shareholder derivative and class action lawsuits. Detailed articles dealing with various aspects of this study have appeared in this and other journals. The reader is referred to: “An Empirical Examination of the Incidence of Shareholder Derivative and Class Action Lawsuits, 1971–1978,”Boston University Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 2 (March 1980), pp. 306–30; “An Empirical Examination of the Resolution of Shareholder Derivative and Class Action Lawsuits,”Boston University Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 3 (May 1980), pp. 542–73; Jones, op. cit.
