Simon Learmount

Corporate Governance

What Can Be Learned from Japan?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In particular, the book commends greater recognition that alongside the currently dominant concern 'controlling' the behaviour of company managers, the governance of companies might equally be considered in terms of the responsibilities, reciprocal obligations, and trust inherent in everyday interactions. The book is equally accessible and relevant to both academics and to those involved with corporate governance issues on a day-to-day basis, including financial services providers, lawyers, policymakers, and company directors.

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This book explores current thinking on corporate governance by way of an empirical examination of the governance practices of fourteen Japanese companies. The analysis is structured around four principal themes, namely the role of shareholders, the role of the main bank, the role of employees, and the role of senior management in the governance of these companies. The book suggests that a system of reciprocal responsibilities, obligations, and trust within and between companies act as an important means by which most Japanese companies are governed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780199252916
• ISBN-10: 0199252912
• Artikelnr.: 21736770

Autorenporträt

Simon Learmount is a lecturer at the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, and is a Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan. He has a Ph.D. and an MBA from the University of Cambridge. Formerly he worked as Sales and Marketing Director of an international healthcare organization, and Managing Director of an international educational organization. In both positions he worked extensively in Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: A Review of Corporate Governance Ideas
2: Current Views of Japanese Corporate Governance
3: Carrying-out the Research
4: Japanese Companies and their Shareholders
5: The Company--Main Bank Relationship
6: A Community of Employees
7: Japanese Directors: Elders of the Corporate Community
8: What Can Be Learned?