Robin Pearson is Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, UK. He has published widely on British and international economic and business history, with a particular focus on the insurance industry. His first book, Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance and the British Economy, 1700-1850, won the 2004 Wadsworth Prize for Business History. Recent edited books include History of the Company, 8 volumes (2006-7), and The Development of International Insurance (2010). His latest book, Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, co-authored with Mark Freeman and James Taylor (University of Chicago Press, 2012), won the Ralph Gomory Prize for Business History in 2013.Takau Yoneyama is Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. His research covers topics from Business History of Insurance to Enterprise Risk Management. He was a chair of the Study Group for Solvency Margin and the related regulation, FSA, and jointed the Legislative Council on Insurance Law as a member. He was a president of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association in 2012/3. He is a chief editor of Japanese Business History Review and an editor-in-chief of JAVCERM Journal. He edited History of Insurance, 8 volumes (2000) with David Jenkins, and A Commentary on the Insurance Act in Japan (2010, in Japanese) with Tomonobu Yamashita. His most recent publication is Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance (2012 in Japanese).

• PART I: THE VARIETY, CHOICE, GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION OF ORGANISATIONAL FORMS ; PART II: MUTUAL INSURANCE ORGANISATIONS IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS ; PART III: THE PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT ORGANISATIONAL FORMS ; PART IV: DEMUTUALIZATION

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Robin Pearson is Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, UK. He has published widely on British and international economic and business history, with a particular focus on the insurance industry. His first book, Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance and the British Economy, 1700-1850, won the 2004 Wadsworth Prize for Business History. Recent edited books include History of the Company, 8 volumes (2006-7), and The Development of International Insurance (2010). His latest book, Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, co-authored with Mark Freeman and James Taylor (University of Chicago Press, 2012), won the Ralph Gomory Prize for Business History in 2013.Takau Yoneyama is Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. His research covers topics from Business History of Insurance to Enterprise Risk Management. He was a chair of the Study Group for Solvency Margin and the related regulation, FSA, and jointed the Legislative Council on Insurance Law as a member. He was a president of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association in 2012/3. He is a chief editor of Japanese Business History Review and an editor-in-chief of JAVCERM Journal. He edited History of Insurance, 8 volumes (2000) with David Jenkins, and A Commentary on the Insurance Act in Japan (2010, in Japanese) with Tomonobu Yamashita. His most recent publication is Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance (2012 in Japanese).

• PART I: THE VARIETY, CHOICE, GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION OF ORGANISATIONAL FORMS ; PART II: MUTUAL INSURANCE ORGANISATIONS IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS ; PART III: THE PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT ORGANISATIONAL FORMS ; PART IV: DEMUTUALIZATION

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Robin Pearson is Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, UK. He has published widely on British and international economic and business history, with a particular focus on the insurance industry. His first book, Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance and the British Economy, 1700-1850, won the 2004 Wadsworth Prize for Business History. Recent edited books include History of the Company, 8 volumes (2006-7), and The Development of International Insurance (2010). His latest book, Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, co-authored with Mark Freeman and James Taylor (University of Chicago Press, 2012), won the Ralph Gomory Prize for Business History in 2013.Takau Yoneyama is Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. His research covers topics from Business History of Insurance to Enterprise Risk Management. He was a chair of the Study Group for Solvency Margin and the related regulation, FSA, and jointed the Legislative Council on Insurance Law as a member. He was a president of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association in 2012/3. He is a chief editor of Japanese Business History Review and an editor-in-chief of JAVCERM Journal. He edited History of Insurance, 8 volumes (2000) with David Jenkins, and A Commentary on the Insurance Act in Japan (2010, in Japanese) with Tomonobu Yamashita. His most recent publication is Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance (2012 in Japanese).

• PART I: THE VARIETY, CHOICE, GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION OF ORGANISATIONAL FORMS ; PART II: MUTUAL INSURANCE ORGANISATIONS IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS ; PART III: THE PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT ORGANISATIONAL FORMS ; PART IV: DEMUTUALIZATION

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