1st Edition

Transforming Corporate Governance in East Asia

Edited By Curtis Milhaupt, Kon-Sik Kim, Hideki Kanda Copyright 2008
348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Over the past ten years, the corporate governance environment in East Asia has undergone a significant transformation. The Asian Financial crisis, together with Japan’s long economic malaise, undermined confidence in the corporate structures, governance practices, and regulatory oversight of firms in the region. Since that time, each of the countries in the region has been a hotbed of... Read more

Introduction: Changes and Challenges in the Transformation of East Asian Corporate Governance Curtis J. Milhaupt  Part 1: Japan  1. Corporate Law in Japan and its Competition Hideki Kanda  2. Transformation of the Management Liability Regime in Japan in the Wake of the 1993 Revision Tomotaka Fujita  3. Kenichi Osugi, Games under Uncertainties: The Transformation of M&A Rules in Japan  Part 2: Korea  4. The Role of Judges in Corporate Governance: Korean Experience Kon-Sik Kim  5. A Tale of Two Companies: The Emerging Market for Corporate Control in Korea Hwa-Jin Kim  6. Improving Corporate Governance through Litigation: Derivative Suits and Class Actions in Korea Ok-Rial Song  Part 3: Greater China (Taiwan and the Mainland)  7. An Analytical Framework for Controlling Minority Shareholders and its Application to Taiwan Wen-Yeu Wang  8. Corporate Regulation in Taiwan: A Political Economy Perspective Lawrence Liu  9. Protection of Minority Shareholders in China: A Task for Both Legislation and Enforcement Xin Tang  10. The Role of Non-Legal Institutions in Chinese Corporate Governance Donald Clarke  11. The Doctrine that Dared not Speak its Name: Anglo-American Fiduciary Duties in China’s Company Law Nicholas Howson  Part 4: Analysis and Commentary  12. Controlling Family Shareholders in Asia: Anchoring Relational Exchange Ronald Gilson  13. The Uncertain Promise of Shareholder Suits in Asian Corporate Governance Michael Klausner

 

Biography

Curtis Milhaupt is the Fuyo Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. Hideki Kanda is Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo and Director of its Center on Excellence in Business Law. Hwa-Jin Kim is Associate Professor of Law and Business at Seoul National University College of Law.