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Corporate governance in the 21st century : Japan's gradual transformation / edited by Luke Nottage, Leon Wolff and Kent Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Corporations, Globalisation and the Law Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corporate governance--Japan.
- Corporate governance.
- Organizational change--Japan.
- Organizational change.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Other Title:
- Corporate governance in the twenty-first century
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Argues that a more complex 'gradual transformation' is unfolding in Japan - a process evident in many other post-industrial economies. This book includes chapters on comparative corporate governance theory and methodology, lifelong employment, the main bank system, board structures, and governance issues in small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction: Japan's gradual transformation in corporate governance; Chapter 2: Perspectives and approaches: a framework for comparing Japanese corporate governance; Chapter 3: The death of lifelong employment in Japan?; Chapter 4: Perverse rescue in the lost decade: main banks in the post-bubble era; Chapter 5: Corporate governance and closely-held companies in Japan: the untold story
- Chapter 6: panaea or placebo? An empirical analysis of the effect of the Japanese committee system corporate governance law reformChapter 7: Streamlining the market for corporate control: a takeovers panel for Japan?; Chapter 8: Corporate governance at the coalface: comparing Japan's complex case law on hostile takeovers and defensive measures; Chapter 9: Open to being closed? Foreign control and adaptive efficiency in Japanese corporate governance; Chapter 10: Conclusions: Japan's largest corporations, then and no; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-94130-1
- 9786611941307
- 1-84844-511-3
- OCLC:
- 437239335
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