TY - BOOK ID - 78531532 TI - Hedge fund activism in Japan AU - Buchanan, John AU - Chai, Dominic Heesang AU - Deakin, S F PY - 2012 SN - 1107230543 1139411543 1280683031 9786613659972 1139422901 113906147X 1139419889 113942193X 1139417843 1139423975 9781139423977 9781139421935 9781139061476 9781107016835 1107016835 9781107230545 9781139411547 9781280683039 6613659975 9781139422901 9781139419888 9781139417846 9781107672505 1107672503 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Corporations KW - Stockholders KW - Hedge funds KW - Corporate governance KW - Funds, Hedge KW - Mutual funds KW - Investors KW - Shareholders KW - Capitalists and financiers KW - Corporation law KW - Stocks KW - Business corporations KW - C corporations KW - Corporations, Business KW - Corporations, Public KW - Limited companies KW - Publicly held corporations KW - Publicly traded corporations KW - Public limited companies KW - Stock corporations KW - Subchapter C corporations KW - Business enterprises KW - Corporate power KW - Disincorporation KW - Trusts, Industrial KW - Investor relations KW - E-books KW - Business & economics KW - Management. KW - Business, Economy and Management KW - Business Management UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78531532 AB - Hedge fund activism is an expression of shareholder primacy, an idea that has come to dominate discussion of corporate governance theory and practice worldwide over the past two decades. This book provides a thorough examination of public and often confrontational hedge fund activism in Japan in the period between 2001 and the full onset of the global financial crisis in 2008. In Japan this shareholder-centric conception of the company espoused by activist hedge funds clashed with the alternative Japanese conception of the company as an enduring organisation or a 'community'. By analysing this clash, the book derives a fresh view of the practices underpinning corporate governance in Japan and offers suggestions regarding the validity of the shareholder primacy ideas currently at the heart of US and UK beliefs about the purpose of the firm. ER -