Title Independent directors in Asia : a historical, contextual and comparative approach / edited by Daniel W. Puchniak, Harald Baum, Luke Nottage

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 619 pages) : illustrations Series International corporate law and financial market regulation International corporate law and financial market regulation. Contents Introduction / Dan W. Puchniak, Harald Baum and Luke Nottage -- The rise of the independent director in the West : understanding the origins of Asia's legal transplants / Harald Baum -- Independent directors : a theoretical framework / Wolf-Georg Ringe -- Varities of independent directors in Asia : a taxonomy / Dan W. Puchniak and Kon Sik Kim -- Japan's gradual reception of independent directors : an empirical and political-economy analysis / Gen Goto, Manabu Matsunaka and Souichirou Kozuka -- Korea's mandatory independent directors : expected and unexpected roles / Kyung-Hoon Chun -- Independent directors in China : facts and reform proposals / Xin Tang -- From double board to unitary board system : independent directors and corporate governance reform in Taiwan / Hsin-Ti Chang, Yu-Hsin Lin and Ying-Hsin Tsai -- Independent directors in Hong Kong / Vivienne Bath -- Independent directors in Singapore : a corporate governance outlier? / Dan W. Puchniak and Luh Luh Lan -- Board independence in India : from form to function? / Vikramaditya Khanna and Umakanth Varottil -- The rise and unlikely demise of independent directors in Australia / Fady Aoun and Luke Nottage -- Case studies of independent directors in Asia / Bruce Aronson -- Independent directors in Asia : theoretical lessons and practical implications / Souichirous Kozuka and Luke Nottage Summary The first in-depth analysis of the independent director in Asia: who they are, what they do and how they are regulated Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Directors of corporations -- Asia Directors of corporations -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Asia Corporations -- Asia Corporation law -- Asia BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior. Corporation law Corporations Directors of corporations Directors of corporations -- Legal status, laws, etc. Asia Form Electronic book Author Puchniak, Dan W., 1976- editor. Baum, Harald, editor. Nottage, Luke, editor. ISBN 9781316846094 1316846091 9781316819180 1316819183 9781316631409 1316631400

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