War on Family Property Rights: Rethinking Governance Reforms for the South Korean Chaebol

ISBN-13: 9781032410593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 130 str.

Oh, Ingyu

Opis

Unlike its status as one of the most developed economies in the world, Korea still suffers from backward struggle between the state and family firms over property rights and family successions issues. This book spells out current governance problems within the chaebol, state reform policies and success and failures of the reforms.

Spis treści

1 Inertia: Stalled governance reforms in the Korean chaebols amid economic maturation 2 The end of rent sharing: corporate governance reforms in South Korea 3 Successors’ discretion and corporate restructuring in family firms in South Korea: from an institutional perspective 4 The shadow of a departing CEO: outsider succession and strategic change in a business group 5 Remains on the board: outside directors’ behaviour and their survival chance in Korean firms 6 Transforming Korean business? Foreign acquisition, governance and management after the 1997 Asian crisis