Alternative corporate governance systems in Japanese firms: Implications for a shift to stockholder-centered corporate governance

• Main Authors: YOSHIKAWA, Toru, PHAN, Phillip H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Corporate Finance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2291; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/3290/viewcontent/Alternative_corporate_governance_systems.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In Asia, the recent catastrophic decline in regional stock markets, continuing currency crisis and failures of major financial institutions and industrial corporations have increased domestic and international interest in corporate governance. Nowhere is this greater than in Japan where financial in...