Incentive Bargaining and Corporate Governance

Zenichi Shishido is Professor of Law at Musashino University, Tokyo, Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Columbia University, Duke University and the University of California, Berkeley. Wei Shen is KoGuan Distinguished Professor of Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan School of Law, and has been a visiting professor at New York University School of Law, Michigan Law School, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, among others.

• Introduction; Part I. Theory and Framework: 1. The framework of analysis; 2. Corporate governance and state; Part II. Management: Executives and Monitors: 3. Incentive of management; 4. Board systems; Part III. Other Three Players and Incentive Bargaining; 5. Employees; 6. Shareholder I: external governance by voice; 7. Shareholder II: external governance by exit: mergers and acquisitions; 8. Creditors; Part IV. Types of Firms: 9. Start-ups and venture capital markets; 10. Listed family firms; Part V. Legislative Policies: 11. Law-making and incentive bargaining; References; Index.

'Shishido and Shen deploy a powerful game-theoretic lens to make sense of the way that the stakeholders of firms in the United States, Japan, and China navigate radically different legal systems. This synoptic account of how managers, employees, creditors, shareholders, and governments interact across these three jurisdictions provides insight into enterprise law everywhere.' Douglas Baird, Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago