"Contents" [2008] ELECD 376; in Nottage, Luke; Wolff, Leon; Anderson, Kent (eds), "Corporate Governance in the 21st Century" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008)

Book Title: Corporate Governance in the 21st Century

Editor(s): Nottage, Luke; Wolff, Leon; Anderson, Kent

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847209238

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of figures and tables vii
List of contributors viii
Preface and acknowledgements ix
List of abbreviations xi

1 Introduction: Japan's gradual transformation in corporate
governance 1
Luke Nottage, Leon Wolff and Kent Anderson
2 Perspectives and approaches: a framework for comparing
Japanese corporate governance 21
Luke Nottage
3 The death of lifelong employment in Japan? 53
Leon Wolff
4 Perverse rescue in the lost decade: main banks in the
post-bubble era 81
Dan W. Puchniak
5 Corporate governance and closely-held companies in Japan:
the untold story 108
Tomoyo Matsui
6 Panacea or placebo? An empirical analysis of the effect of
the Japanese committee system corporate governance law
reform 129
Peter Lawley
7 Streamlining the market for corporate control: a takeovers
panel for Japan? 155
Geread Dooley
8 Corporate governance at the coalface: comparing Japan's
complex case law on hostile takeovers and defensive measures 178
Mitsuhiro Kamiya and Tokutaka Ito
9 Open to being closed? Foreign control and adaptive efficiency
in Japanese corporate governance 197
Christopher Pokarier




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10 Conclusions: Japan's largest companies, then and now 228
Souichirou Kozuka

Bibliography 246
Index 279