Corporate governance reform as institutional innovation: The case of Japan

• Main Authors: YOSHIKAWA, Toru, Tsui-Auch, Lai Si, McGuire, Jean
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: corporate governance; decoupling; innovation; convergence; institutional theory; organizational field; Japan; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Strategic Management Policy; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/648; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/1647/viewcontent/Yoshikawa2007OrgSci.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

To address the convergence-divergence debate in corporate governance, we conduct a multiple-case, multiple-level study to analyze the diffusion of governance innovation in Japan. We argue that Japanese systems of corporate governance neither fully converge to, nor completely diverge from, the Anglo-...