Description
Corporate governance in Asia continues to attract global interest due to its critical importance to the world's fastest-growing region. The study of governance systems remains complicated by Asia's mix of legal traditions, market systems and social history. This comprehensive textbook provides a comparative overview of the corporate governance framework, theory and practice in major Asian countries. Students at all levels will gain an understanding of corporate governance systems in Asia and how they compare with models attributed to the US, the UK and Europe. Featuring six foundational chapters focusing on general theory and corporate governance systems and eight country-specific chapters, this book can be used as the basic textbook for a general course on comparative corporate governance or as an essential reference about corporate governance in Asia for a wide variety of professionals including academics, jurists, students, practitioners, investors, creditors, policymakers and analysts.
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction and Models: 1. Comparative corporate governance – introduction and overview Bruce Aronson and Joongi Kim; 2. US and UK models Bruce Aronson and Joongi Kim; 3. German and European models Bruce Aronson and Joongi Kim; 4. Global theories of corporate governance: law, development and convergence theory Bruce Aronson and Joongi Kim; Part II. Asian Corporate Governance Systems: 5. Australia Jennifer Hill; 6. Hong Kong Say H. Goo and Yu-Hsin Lin; 7. India Umakanth Varottil; 8. Singapore Dan Puchniak; 9. China Jiangyu Wang; 10. Japan Bruce Aronson; 11. Korea Joongi Kim; 12. Taiwan Christopher Chen; Part III. Future/Conclusion: 13. Stock exchange competition Bruce Aronson and Joongi Kim; 14. Conclusion Bruce Aronson and Joongi Kim.
