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Information, Corporate Governance and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA and the Transitional Economies
Information, Corporate Governance and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA and the Transitional Economies

Information, Corporate Governance and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA and the Transitional Economies

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Masahiko Aoki
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This book uses comparative institutional analysis to explain differences in national economic performance. Countries have their own rules for corporate governance and they have different market arrangements; and these differences in rules and organization affect the way firms behave. Countries also tend to develop conventions of organizational architecture of firms - whether their hierarchies are functional, horizontal, or decentralized. This affects the way in which they process information, and information management is increasingly seen as being of crucial importance to a firm's performance. Aoki accords more importance to these factors than to the factors conventionally used in applying a neoclassical model of economic efficiency. He applies game theory, contract theory, and information theory. By describing the rules and norms in Japan, the USA, and the transitional economies, Aoki shows how firms can achieve competitive advantage in international markets if these conventions and rules are well suited to the industrial sector in which the firms operate. He is particularly concerned with how Japan, with its main bank and lifelong employment systems, as well as information-sharing firm organizational structure, might reform its institutions to maintain competitive advantage in the world economy.

Index: 

1. What is Comparative Institutional Analysis?
2. . Organizational Diversity and Comparative Informational Efficiency
3. The Evolutionary Game and Multiple Equilibria
4. Institutional Complementarity and Corporate Governance
5. The Main Bank System and Government Regulations
6. Relevance to Corporate Governance in Transition Economies
7. Gains from Diversity and Institutional Reform in the Japanese Economy
Postscript 2000
Appendix. Towards a Comparative Institutional Analysis: Motivations and Some Tentative Theorizing

About the author: 

Masahiko Aoki, Henry and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Economic Studies, Stanford University; Hyung-Ki Kim, Former Division Chief for Studies, EDIST, World Bank; Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo

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Masahiko Aoki
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Jan 2001
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Information, Corporate Governance and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA and the Transitional Economies

Information, Corporate Governance and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA and the Transitional Economies

Information, Corporate Governance and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA and the Transitional Economies