War on Family Property Rights

Auteur

Ingyu Oh is Professor of Business and Cultural Industries at Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan. His main teaching and research interests include organizational studies, innovation, international business, political economy, political sociology, business history and cultural studies. He has published numerous books, monographs and journal articles over the last 25+ years. He is Associate Editor of Asia Pacific Business Review.

Chris Rowley is Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College at the University of Oxford, UK, and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Tohoku University, Japan, and at the University of Business and International Studies, Switzerland. He is Professor Emeritus at Bayes Business School at the City, University of London, UK. He has over 30 years' experience in university systems in the UK, Europe, and Asia and has won several international grants. He is the Editor of the important SCI-rated journal Asia Pacific Business Review and has published over 700 articles, books, chapters and practitioner pieces. He regularly provides interviews, expert comments and opinion pieces to the international media, including news services, TV, radio and practitioner outlets.

Yong Wook Jun is Invited Professor at Business School at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is Academician, Businessman and Consultant, having worked for universities, business corporations and consulting firms in the past 40 years. He was Dean of Global Learning Institute at Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, South Korea. Prior to this, he was Vice President of Sejong University, Vice President of Woosong University and Dean of SolBridge International School of Business. Professor Jun has served as Non-Executive Director, Counsellor and Consultant for many major Korean corporations including Hynix, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motors and SK Telecom. His capabilities are balanced in both practice and academia. He has also published numerous articles and textbooks in the field of International Business.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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