Corruption and Governance in Asia

✍ Scribed by John Kidd, Frank-Jurgen Richter

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book delves into the nature of governance in Asia both at government and corporate level. It reviews the history and suggests potential solutions for years of underperformance due to the corrupt practices that have developed because of a poor understanding of corporate governance. The authors are experts in practices in Asia and their views are expressed in a sympathetic manner, at no time insisting that a western model of governance is correct. Instead the authors advise local models appropriate to the state of development and suggest that individual countries institute behavioral models that will mature as nations quickly develop in an increasingly global world.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
About the Authors......Page 9
1 The 'Oppression' of Governance?......Page 18
2 The Challenge to Corruption and the International Business Environment......Page 44
3 Poor Corporate Governance, Market Discipline and Cronyism in the 1997 Asian Crisis......Page 60
4 A Two-Stage Model of Cronyism in Organizations: A Cultural View of Governance......Page 78
5 Understanding the Mind of the Chinese: A Historical Perspective......Page 103
6 The Competitive Advantage with Chinese Characteristics – The Sophisticated Choreography of Gift-Giving......Page 124
7 The Economics of Corruption and Cronyism – An Institutional Approach to the Reform of Governance......Page 148
8 Taming the Sokaiya: Can Economic and Corporate Reform Eliminate Extortion in Japan?......Page 166
9 Fighting against Corruption: The Japanese Approach to Reform Corporate Governance......Page 183
10 Singapore's Anti-Corruption Strategy: Is this Form of Governance Transferable to Other Asian Countries?......Page 197
11 A Human Resource Development Program to Foster Individual Moral Development in Indian Corporations: Aligning Corporate Governance with Natural Law......Page 215
12 Corruption in Asia – A Bottom-up Approach to its Resolution......Page 227
13 Doing the Right Thing – Incorporating the Ethical Imperative into the Sustainable Development Process......Page 242
C......Page 268
E......Page 269
I......Page 270
N......Page 271
S......Page 272
Z......Page 273