Author: Toru Yoshikawa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1108572650

This Element aims to achieve three objectives. First, it explores some key institutional characteristics of several Asian economies that are relevant to corporate governance practices. Second, it reviews corporate governance codes or rules in those economies and examines levels of requirements in terms of formal rules. Third, this Element looks at recent trends related to corporate governance such as executive compensation and a proportion of independent directors on boards of large listed firms.