Corporate Governance Japan

This list contains selected works on Japanese corporate governance written in English.

• Gregory Jackson. 2005. "Reforming Stakeholder Models? Comparing Germany and Japan."in Corporate Governance, Human Resources Management and Firm Performance. DTI Economic Paper No. 13.
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• Gregory Jackson and Andreas Moerke. 2005. "Continuity and Change in Corporate Governance: Comparing Germany and Japan." in Corporate Governance: An International Review. Blackwell Publishing.
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• Gregory Jackson. 2005. "Stakeholders under Pressure: Corporate Governance and Labour Management in Germany and Japan." in Corporate Governance: An International Review. Blackwell Publishing.
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• Yasuhiro Arikawa, Hideaki Miyajima. 2005. "Relationship Banking and Debt Choice: Evidence from Japan." in Corporate Governance: An International Review. Blackwell Publishing.
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• "New Japanese Corporation to Expedite Corporate and Industrial Reorganization," JETRO Focus Newsletter, January 15, 2003
• Yamamura, Kozo, and Wolfgang Streeck (eds.). 2002. The End of Diversity? Prospects of German and Japanese Capitalism. Cornell University Press.
• Szymkowiak, Kenneth. 2002. Sokaiya : extortion, protection, and the Japanese corporation. M.E. Sharpe.
• Milhaupt, Curtis J. 2002. "On the (Fleeting) Existence of the Main Bank System and Other Japanese Economic Institutions." Law and Social Inquiry 27.
• _.2002. "Institutional Change and M&A in Japan: Diversity Through Deals." in Global Markets, Domestic Institutions: Corporate Law and Governance in a New Era of Cross-Border Deals, edited by Curtis J. Milhaupt. Columbia University Press.
• Jackson, Gregory. 2002. "Corporate Governance in Germany and Japan: Liberalization Pressures and Responses." in The End of Diversity? Prospects of German and Japanese Capitalism, edited by Wolfgang Streeck, and Kozo Yamamura. Cornell University Press.
• Okabe, Mitsuaki. 2001. Are Cross-Shareholdings of Japanese Corporations Dissolving? Evolution and Implications. Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies.
• Milhaupt, Curtis J. 2001. "Creative Norm Destruction: The Evolution of Nonlegal Rules in Japanese Corporate Governance." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 149(6).
• Kono, Toyohiro, and Stewart Clegg. 2001. Trends in Japanese management : continuing strengths, current problems, and changing priorities. Palgrave.
• Kanaya, Akihiro, and D. Woo. 2001. The Japanese Banking Crisis of the 1990s : Sources and Lessons. International Economics Section Dept. of Economics Princeton University.
• Jackson, Gregory, and Sigurt Vitols. 2001. "Between Financial Commitment, Market Liquidity and Corporate Governance: Occupational Pensions in Britain, Germany, Japan and the USA." Pp. 171-189 in Comparing Welfare Capitalism. Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA, edited by Bernhard Ebbinghaus, and Philip Manow. Routledge.
• Shishido, Zenichi. 2000. "Reform in Japanese Corporate Law and Corporate Governance: Current Changes in Historical Perspective." in Seiki University.
  _.2000. "Japanese Corporate Governance: The Hidden Problems of Corporate Law and Their Solutions." Deleware Journal of Corporate Law.
• Raupach-Sumiya, Jorg. 2000. "Growing M&A Activities and Their Impact on Japan's Corporate System." Mimeo, DIJ Business & Economics Study Group.
• Okumura, Hiroshi. 2000. Corporate Capitalism in Japan. St. Martin's Press.
• Kanda, Hideki. 2000. "Situation in Japan." OECD Conference, Company Law Reform in OECD Countries, Stockholm Sweden, December 7-8, 2000.
• Gilson, Ronald J., and Mark J. Roe. 2000. "The Political Economy of Japanese Lifetime Employment." Pp. 239-274 in Employees and Corporate Governance, edited by Margaret M. Blair, and Mark J. Roe. Brookings Institution.
• Bayoumi, Tamim A., and Charles Collyns. 2000. Post-bubble blues : how Japan responded to asset price collapse. International Monetary Fund.
• Aoki, Masahiko, and Gary R. Saxonhouse. 2000. Finance, governance, and competitiveness in Japan. Oxford University Press.
• RIALS, (Research Institute for the Advancement of Living Standards). 1999. "How Top Managers See the Japanese Corporation. An Interim Report of the Survey on Corporate Governance to the Top Management (February 1999)." Paper presented at the conference, "The Polical Economy of Corporate Governance in Europe and Japan," Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, June 10-11, 1999, Florence.
• Renshaw, Jean R. 1999. Kimono in the boardroom : the invisible evolution of Japanese women managers. Oxford University Press.
• Pempel, T.J. 1999. "Structural Gaiatsu: International Finance and Political Change in Japan." Comparative Political Studies December, Vol.32(8):907-932.
• Heinrich, Ralph. 1999. "Complementarities in Corporate Governance. A Survey of the Literature with Special Emphasis on Japan." Kiel Working Paper No.947.
• Ide, Masasuke. 1998. Japanese Corporate Finance and International Competition: Japanese Capitalism versus American Capitalism. Macmillan.
• Dietl, Helmut Max. 1998. Capital markets and Corporate Governance in Japan, Germany, and the United States : Organizational Response to Market Inefficiencies. Routledge.
• Carlile, Lonny E., and Mark Tilton. 1998. Is Japan really changing its ways? : regulatory reform and the Japanese economy. Brookings Institution Press.
• Milhaupt, Curtis J. 1997. "The Market for Innovation in the United States and Japan: Venture Capital and the Comparative Corporate Governance Debate." Northwestern University Law Review 91(3).
• Kojima, Kenji. 1997. Japanese Corporate Governance: an International Perspective. Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration Kobe University.
• Dore, Ronald. 1997. "The Distinctiveness of Japan." Pp. 19-32 in Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, edited by Colin Crouch, and Wolfgang Streeck. Sage.
• Dirks, Daniel. 1997. "The Japanese Employment System in Transition. Five Perspectives." German Institute for Japanese Studies, Arbeitspapier 97/3.
• Aoki, Masahiko. 1997. "Unintended Fit : Organizational Evolution and Government Design of Institutions in Japan." Pp. 233-253 in The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development: Comparative Institutional Analysis, edited by Masahiko Aoki, Hyung-Ki Kim, and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara. Clarendon Press.
• Vogel, Steven K. 1996. Freer Markets, More Rules : Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries. Cornell University Press.
• Tsuru, K. otar o. 1996. The Japanese market economy system : its strengths and weaknesses, 1st English ed. LTCB International Library Foundation.
• Hall, Brian J., David E. Weinstein, and National Bureau of Economic Research. 1996. The myth of the patient Japanese : corporate myopia and financial distress in Japan and the US. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Corbett, Jennifer, and Tim Jenkinson. 1996. "The Financing of Industry, 1970-1989: An International Comparison,." Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 10:71.
• Rafferty, Kevin. 1995. Inside Japan's power houses : the culture, mystique and future of Japan's greatest corporations. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• Omae, Ken'ichi. 1995. Japanese corporate strategy in crisis. Center on Japanese Economy and Business Graduate School of Business Columbia University.
• Shishido, Zenichi. 1994. "Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance in Japan." Pp. 665-687 in Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance, edited by Theodor Baums, Richard M. Buxbaum, and Klaus Hopt. Walter de Gruyter.
• Sheard, Paul. 1994. "Interlocking Shareholdings and Corporate Governance." Pp. 310-349 in The Japanese Firm: The Sources of Competitive Strength, edited by Masahiko Aoki, and Ronald Dore. Oxford University Press.
• Miyashita, Kenichi, and David Russell. 1994. Keiretsu : inside the hidden Japanese conglomerates. McGraw-Hill.
• Milgrom, Paul R., and John Roberts. 1994. "Complementarities and Systems: Understanding Japanese Economic Organization." Estudios Economicos 9(1):3-42.
• Itami, Hiroyuki. 1994. "The "Human-Capital-ism" of the Japanese firm as an integrated system." Pp. 73-88 in Business enterprise in Japan: Views of Leading Japanese Economists, edited by Kenichi Imai, and Ryutaro Komiya. MIT Press.
• Imai, Ken ichi, Ry utar o Komiya, Ronald Philip Dore, and D. H. Whittaker. 1994. Business enterprise in Japan : views of leading Japanese economists. MIT Press.
• Hoshi, Takeo. 1994. "The Economic Role of Corporate Grouping and the Main Bank System." Pp. 285-309 in The Japanese Firm: The Source of Competitive Strength, edited by Masahiko Aoki, and Ronald Dore. Oxford University Press.
• Aoki, Masahiko, and Hugh Patrick (eds.). 1994. The Japanese Main Bank System: Its Relevance for Developing and Transforming Economies. Oxford University Press.
• Aoki, Masahiko. 1994. "The Japanese Firm as a System of Attributes." Pp. 11-40 in The Japanese Firm: Sources of Competitive Strength, edited by Masahiko Aoki, and Ronald Dore. Oxford University Press.
• Aoki, Masahiko, and Ronald Philip Dore. 1994. The Japanese firm : the sources of competitive strength. Oxford University Press.
• Pushner, George Michael. 1993. "Ownership structure and corporate performance in the U.S. and Japan." Pp. iv, 138 leaves, bound.
• Morikawa, Hidemasa. 1993. "Japanese Top Management." Japanese Yearbook on Business History 10:1-26.
• Calder, Kent E. 1993. Stategic Capitalism : Private Business and Public Purpose in Japanese Industrial Finance. Princeton University Press.
• Sako, Mari. 1992. Prices, Quality, and Trust. Inter-Firm Relations in Britain and Japan. Cambridge University Press.
• Gerlach, Michael L. 1992. Alliance capitalism : the social organization of Japanese business. University of California Press.
• Matsumoto, Koji. 1991. The rise of the Japanese corporate system : the inside view of a MITI official, Rev. and updated ed. Kegan Paul International.
• Kitschelt, Herbert. 1991. "Industrial Governance Structures, Innovation Strategies, and the Case of Japan: Sectoral or Cross-National Comparative Analysis?" International Organization 45(4):453-493.
• Lincoln, James R., and Arne L. Kalleberg. 1990. Culture, Control and Commitment. A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan. Cambridge University Press.
• Kester, W. Carl. 1990. Japanese takeovers : the global contest for corporate control. Harvard Business School Press.
• Iyori, Hiroshi. 1990. "A Comparative Analysis on Japanese Competition Law: An Attempt to Identify German and American Influences." Pp. 227-254 in Die Japanisierung des westlilchen Rechts, edited by Helmut Coing, Ryuichi Hirano, Zentaro Kitigawa, Junichi Murakami, Knut Wolfgang Norr, Thomas Oppermann, and Hiroshi Shiono. J.C.B. Mohr.
• Aoki, Masahiko. 1988. Information, Incentives, and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy. Cambridge University Press.
• Dore, Ronald Philip. 1987. Taking Japan seriously : a Confucian perspective on leading economic issues. Stanford University Press.
• Scott, John. 1986. Capitalist property and Financial Power : A Comparative Study of Britain, the United States and Japan. New York University Press.
• Dore, Ronald Philip. 1986. Flexible rigidities : industrial policy and structural adjustment in the Japanese economy, 1970-80. Stanford University Press.
• Kagono, Tadao. 1985. Strategic vs. evolutionary management : a U.S.-Japan comparison of strategy and organization.
• North-Holland ;Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada Elsevier Science Pub. Co.
• Aoki, Masahiko. 1984. The Economic analysis of the Japanese firm. North-Holland ;Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada Elsevier Science Pub. Co.
• Ouchi, W.G. 1982. Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge. Avon.
• Cole, Robert E. 1979. Work, mobility, and participation : A Comparative Study of American and Japanese industry. University of California Press.
• Clark, Rodney. 1979. The Japanese Company. Yale University Press.
• Dore, Ronald. 1973. British Factory, Japanese Factory. The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations. University of California Press.

Those works concern the historical origins of Japanese corporate governance.

• Streeck, Wolfgang, and Kozo Yamamura. 2001. The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison. Cornell University Press.
• Okazaki, Tetsuji. 2001. "The Role of Holding Companies in Pre-war Japanese Economic Development: Rethinking Zaibatsu in Perspectives of Corporate Governance." Social Science Japan Journal 4(2):243-268.
• Jackson, Gregory. 2001. "The Origins of Nonliberal Corporate Governance in Germany and Japan." Pp. 121-170 in The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison, edited by Kozo Yamamura, and Wolfgang Streeck. Cornell University Press.
• Hoshi, Takeo. 2001. Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan : the Road to the Future. MIT Press.
• Moriguchi, Chiaki. 2000. "The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis." NBER, Working Paper 7939.
• Okazaki, Tetsuji, and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (eds.). 1999. The Japanese Economic System and its Historical Origins. Oxford University Press.
• Gordon, Andrew. 1998. The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Press.
• Hashimoto, Juro. 1996. "How and When Japanese Economic and Enterprise Systems Were Formed." Japanese Yearbook on Business History 13:5-26.
• Teranishi, Juro. 1994. "Loan Syndication in Wartime Japan and the Origins of the Main Bank System." Pp. 51-88 in he Japanese Main Bank System, edited by Masahiko Aoki, and Hugh Patrick. Oxford University Press.
• Okazaki, Tetsuji. 1994. "The Japanese Firm under the Wartime Planned Economy." Pp. 350-375 in The Japanese Firm. The Sources of Competitive Strength., edited by Masahiko and Ronald Dore Aoki. Oxford University Press.
• Gordon, Andrew. 1993. "Contests for the Workplace." Pp. 373-394 in Postwar Japan as History, edited by Andrew Gordon. University of California Press.
• Morikawa, Hidemasa. 1992. Zaibatsu: The Rise and Fall of Family Enterprise Groups in Japan. University of Tokyo Press.
• Iwata, Ryushi. 1992. "The Japanese Enterprise as a Unified Body of Employees Origins and Development." Pp. 170-197 in he Political Economy of Japan, Volume 3: Cultural and Social Dynamics, edited by Shumpei Kumon, and Henry Rosovsky. Stanford University Press.
• Gordon, Andrew. 1992. Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. University of California Press.
• Fruin, W. Mark. 1992. The Japanese Enterprise System : Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures. Clarendon Press.
• Wray, William D. 1989. "Afterward: The Writing of japanese Business History." Pp. 317-374 in Managing Industrial Enterprise. Cases from Japan's Prewar Experience, edited by William D. Wray. Harvard University Press.
• Gordon, Andrew. 1988. The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan. Harvard University Press.
• Morikawa, Hidemasa. 1986. "Prerequisites for the Development of Managerial Capitalism: Cases in Prewar Japan." Pp. 1-27 in The Development of Managerial Enterprise, edited by Kesaji Kobayashi, and Hidemasa Morikawa. University of Tokyo Press.
• Masaki, Hishashi. 1986. "The Formation and Evolution of the Corporate Business System in Japan." Japanese Yearbook of Business History 3:26-51.
• Chimoto, Akiko. 1986. "Employment in the Meiji Period: From 'Tradition' to 'Modernity." Japanese Yearbook of Business History 3:135-159.
• Kobayashi, Masaaki. 1985. "Japan's Early Industrialization and the Transfer of Government Enterprises: Government and Business." Japanese Yearbook of Business History 2:54-79.
• Yui, Tsunehiko. 1984. "The Development of the Organizational Structure of Top Management in Meiji Japan." Japanese Yearbook of Business History 1:p.1-23.
• Yasuoka, Shigeaki. 1984. "Capital Ownership in Family Companies: Japanese Firms Compared with Those in Other Countries." Pp. 1-32 in Family Business in the Era of Industrial Growth: Its Ownership and Management. Proceedings of the Fuji Conference, edited by Akio Okochi, and Shigeaki Yasuoka. Tokyo University Press.
• Miyamoto, Matao. 1984. "The Position and Role of Family Business in the Development of the Japanese Company System." Pp. 39-91 in Family Business in the Era of Industrial Growth: Its Ownership and Management: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference, edited by Akio Okochi, and Shigeaki Yasuoka. University of Tokyo Press.
• Gould, William B. IV. 1984. Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law. MIT Press.
• Taira, Koji. 1970. "Factory Legislation and Management Modernization during Japan's Industrialization, 1886-1916." Business History Review XLIV(1):84-109.
• Evans, Robert, Jr. 1970. "Evolution of the Japanese System of Employer-Employee Relations, 1868-1945." Business History Review XLIV(1):110-125.
• Hirschmeier, Johannes. 1964. The Origins of Entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan. Harvard University Press.
• Bisson, T. A. 1954. Zaibatsu Dissolution in Japan. University of California Press.