Corporate governance in Japan from the viewpoints of management, accounting, and the market /

The cases of Enron and WorldCom focused attention on the issue of whether corporations have a social responsibility beyond stockholder value. Incidents in Japan have raised similar questions. This book provides an analysis of the issue as it applies to management, accounting practices and the invest...

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Other Authors: Demise, N., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Tokyo ; Berlin : Springer, 2006.
Tokyo ; Berlin : 2006.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 122 pages) : illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Management and Corporate Governance; Moral Hazard in Corporate Governance; Accounting and Corporate Governance; Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance; Institutional Investors Exercising Shareholder Voting Rights in Japan; Board of Directors; Accounting and Disclosure in Japan; Managerial Judgment Hazard in Corporate Governance; The Effect of Global Shareholder Activism on the Japanese Financial System and the Japanese Corporation; OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.