Corporations of this century have seen a lot and undergone dramatic changes especially in corporate governance, activism and investor relations.
A typical activist shareholder is the one who tries to use his or her equity stake in order to achieve certain goals, bring the change, and affect how a corporation behaves by influencing other shareholders or using his/her voting power.
On the other hand, a minority shareholder is the one who owns less than 50% of the total shares of a corporation’s stocks.