Changing corporate governance practices in China and Japan: adaptations of Anglo-American practices

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Notes on the Contributors

1. Introduction

Part I. New Corporate Governance Practices: Institutional and Economic Considerations

2. The Two Models of Corporate Governance and the Institutional Reform of Chinese Enterprise

3. How to Prevent China's Listed Companies from Making Misstatements

4. Issues in the Protection of Minority Shareholders' Rights and Interests under China's Company Law

5. An Economic Perspective on Recent Corporate Governance Developments in China with Comments on the Chapters by Yang, Gu and Wang

6. The "Grabbing Hand" and Corporate Governance in China

7. Corporate Governance Practices in Post-Bubble Japan: Adapting to the Globalizing Economies of the Twenty-First Century

8. Understanding the M&A Wave in Japan: What Drives Japanese M&As?

Part II. Evolving Corporate Governance Practices: Selective Adaptations

9. The Strange Role of Independent Directors in a Two-Tier Board Structure in China's Listed Companies

10. Low Structure, High Ambiguity: Selective Adaptation of International Norms of Corporate Governance Mechanisms in China

11. Selective Adaptation of Anglo-American Corporate Governance Practices in Japan

Index