The Weinberg Center and the IRRC Institute

About IRRCi and the Center

In July 2018, the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCi) announced that it selected the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance (Weinberg Center) at the University of Delaware as its successor organization.

The Weinberg Center received a grant from IRRCi in excess of $1 million as part of the successor transition. With these funds, the Weinberg Center will materially expand its environmental, social, corporate governance and capital market research, and also maintain the full IRRCi research library so that more than 75 research reports remain publicly available at no cost. The Weinberg Center also will continue to fund and manage the annual IRRCi Investor Research Award that recognizes outstanding practitioner and academic research. The selection of the Weinberg Center culminated a planned multi-year succession process undertaken by the IRRCi Board. The selection of the Weinberg Center was the result of a planned multi-year succession process undertaken by the IRRCi Board that included consideration of more than 25 organizations.

Research Reports

IRRCi was a nonprofit research organization formed following the 2005 sale of IRRC to Institutional Shareholder Services (now MSCI) to act as a catalyst for thought leaders, and to sponsor research on corporate governance and corporate responsibility issues that are important to the linkage of broad societal issues to investment performance. IRRCi funded academic and practitioner research that enabled investors, policymakers and other stakeholders to make data-driven decisions. IRRCi research covered a wide range of topics of interest to investors, was objective, unbiased and disseminated widely. IRRCi issued 75 research reports, which are available on the Weinberg Center website. It’s research has been cited by regulators, lawmakers, academics and leading investors.

Past IRRCi Research

Research Library

The full library of IRRCi articles are available for perusal.

Webinars & Videos

Past webinars and videos are available as a list of embedded videos, or via Youtube.

Historical Materials

The following historical IRRCi materials are available:

  • File of memoranda on the establishment of a first corporate governance research service for investors covering the UK.  The earliest dates from 1988.
  • File of memoranda on the establishment of a first corporate governance research service for investors covering France. These are exchanges between IRRC and the individual who was planning to found a CG research firm in Paris.
  • File of 29 newsletters published by IRRC aimed at covering developments in corporate governance worldwide. Issues were produced quarterly from Autumn 1990 as separate publications from IRRC’s domestic corporate governance newsletter. The two merged beginning with the January-March 1996 issue.
  • File of 5 research reports in 1990 and 1991 prepared by IRRC’s Global Shareholder Service for a consortium of institutional investors created by IRRC to explore shareholder rights and corporate governance issues outside the US.  Briefings in 1990 cover basic issues such as how to vote proxies in select markets. The 1991 report is a profile of the global proxy season.
  •  Stephen Davis, Shareholder Rights Abroad: A Handbook for the Global Investor (IRRC 1989) was the first book to address corporate governance and share voting outside the US. It laid groundwork for creation of the investor consortium which, in turn, funded the founding of IRRC’s Global Shareholder Service in 1990.
  • Corinna Arnold, Glossary of No-US Proxy Terms (IRRC January 1991).

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Historical Materials

The following historical IRRCi materials are available:

  • File of memoranda on the establishment of a first corporate governance research service for investors covering the UK.  The earliest dates from 1988.
  • File of memoranda on the establishment of a first corporate governance research service for investors covering France. These are exchanges between IRRC and the individual who was planning to found a CG research firm in Paris.
  • File of 29 newsletters published by IRRC aimed at covering developments in corporate governance worldwide. Issues were produced quarterly from Autumn 1990 as separate publications from IRRC’s domestic corporate governance newsletter. The two merged beginning with the January-March 1996 issue.
  • File of 5 research reports in 1990 and 1991 prepared by IRRC’s Global Shareholder Service for a consortium of institutional investors created by IRRC to explore shareholder rights and corporate governance issues outside the US.  Briefings in 1990 cover basic issues such as how to vote proxies in select markets. The 1991 report is a profile of the global proxy season.
  •  Stephen Davis, Shareholder Rights Abroad: A Handbook for the Global Investor (IRRC 1989) was the first book to address corporate governance and share voting outside the US. It laid groundwork for creation of the investor consortium which, in turn, funded the founding of IRRC’s Global Shareholder Service in 1990.
  • Corinna Arnold, Glossary of No-US Proxy Terms (IRRC January 1991).

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Our Location

102 Alfred Lerner Hall
20 Orchard Road
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716, USA

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Contact Info

Phone: 302-831-6157

Nicole Rich | Administrative Specialist
nrich@udel.edu

Louisa Cresson | Assistant Director
lcresson@udel.edu