Download or read book Asian Corporate Governance written by Toru Yoshikawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.