1st Edition
Corporate Systems in Emerging Market Economies A Comparison of China and Eastern Europe
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of online appendixes
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Corporate Ownership and Firm Behaviour: A Meta-Analytic Approach
1. Ownership Structure and Firm Performance
2. Corporate Ownership and Managerial Turnover
Part II. Internal Organization: Through the lens of the Corporate Board
3. Structure of Corporate Boards and its determinants
4. Board Generational Diversity
Part III. Gender and Firms
5. Gender Diversity of Corporate Officers
6. Women's Social Empowerment and its Impact on Board Structures
Part IV. Labor Relations
7. The Wage Function: A Meta-Analytic Comparison
8. Trade Unions: Does Union Membership ensure a Wage Premium?
Part V. Society and Firms
9. Corporate Social Responsibility
10. Corporate Crime
Index
Biography
Ichiro Iwasaki is a specially appointed professor at the Department of Law, Economics and Management of Okinawa University in Okinawa and a research fellow of the Institute of Economic Research of Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. He specializes in corporate finance and comparative economics. He has authored nearly 250 publications in scholarly books and international journals.
Xinxin Ma is a professor in the Faculty of Economics at Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan. Her areas of expertise include labor economics, transition economies, comparative economics, and the Chinese economy. She has published over 200 scholarly works, including books and journal articles in English, Chinese, and Japanese.
Satoshi Mizobata is an emeritus professor and a specially appointed professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. His research focuses on corporate governance, comparative economics, and emerging market economies. He has published nearly 200 scholarly books and journal articles.
