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Hedge Fund Activism in Japan - John Buchanan, Dominic Heesang Chai, Simon Deakin

Hedge Fund Activism in Japan

The Limits of Shareholder Primacy
Buch | Softcover
388 Seiten
2013
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-67250-5 (ISBN)
CHF 78,50 inkl. MwSt
Hedge fund activism is an expression of shareholder primacy, an idea that has come to dominate discussion of corporate governance theory and practice. This book provides an examination of confrontational hedge fund activism in Japan in the period between 2001 and the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008.
Hedge fund activism is an expression of shareholder primacy, an idea that has come to dominate discussion of corporate governance theory and practice worldwide over the past two decades. This book provides a thorough examination of public and often confrontational hedge fund activism in Japan in the period between 2001 and the full onset of the global financial crisis in 2008. In Japan this shareholder-centric conception of the company espoused by activist hedge funds clashed with the alternative Japanese conception of the company as an enduring organisation or a 'community'. By analysing this clash, the book derives a fresh view of the practices underpinning corporate governance in Japan and offers suggestions regarding the validity of the shareholder primacy ideas currently at the heart of US and UK beliefs about the purpose of the firm.

John Buchanan is a research associate at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His first degree was in oriental studies and subsequently he worked as a commercial banker in Brazil, Japan and Spain, and then as an investment banker in the UK and Japan, at both British and Japanese banks. He has been studying Japanese corporate governance since 2002. Dominic Chai is Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Management at Seoul National University. He has held a faculty position at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester and a junior research fellowship at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Simon Deakin is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law and an associate faculty member of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He has directed an interdisciplinary programme of research on corporate governance at the Centre for Business Research in Cambridge since the early 1990s. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2005.

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Note on transcriptions of Japanese names; 1. Introduction: hedge fund activism, Japanese corporate governance, and the nature of the company; 2. Companies, company law, and corporate governance; 3. The rise of shareholder primacy in America and Britain; 4. The emergence of activist hedge funds; 5. Firm-centric corporate governance: the evolution of the Japanese model; 6. Japan's unexpected credentials as a target for hedge fund activism; 7. The anatomy of hedge fund activism: funds, targets and outcomes; 8. Two turning points: Bull-Dog Sauce and J-Power; 9. Responding to activism: managers, investors, officials and the media; 10. 'Quiet activism': the future for shareholder engagement in Japan?; 11. Conclusion: after shareholder primacy; Methodological appendix; Bibliography.

Zusatzinfo 10 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 520 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Wirtschaftsrecht Handelsrecht
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 1-107-67250-3 / 1107672503
ISBN-13 978-1-107-67250-5 / 9781107672505
Zustand Neuware
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