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Reforming Corporate Governance in Southeast Asia : Economics, Politics, and Regulations / ed. by Khai Leong Ho.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789812302953
  • 9789812306326
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. Overviews -- 1. Corporate Governance: An Alternative Model -- 2. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REFORMS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA -- 3. Disclosure, Reporting, and Derivative Actions: Empowering Shareholders in Southeast Asia -- 4. Governance Reforms in the Banking Sector in Southeast Asia: Economics and Institutional Imperatives -- Part II. Country Studies -- 5. Corporate Governance Reforms in Malaysia: Issues and 85 Challenges -- 6. Corporate Governance in Malaysia: Reforms in Light of Post-1998 Crisis -- 7. Indonesia’s Tolerated Low-Speed Reform of Corporate Governance -- 8. The Political Economy of Corporate Governance in Indonesia -- 9. Building Good Corporate Governance after the Crisis: The Experience of Thailand -- 10. National Corporate Governance Committee: Three Disciplines for Good Corporate Governance in Thailand -- 11. State of Corporate Governance Reforms in Singapore: Economic Realities, Political Institutions, and Regulatory Frameworks -- 12. Corporate Governance Reforms and the Management of the GLCs in Singapore: Pressures, Problems, and Paradoxes -- 13. From the Inside Out: Reforming Corporate Governance in the Philippines by Engaging the Private Sector -- 14. Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions: The Philippine Case -- 15. Promoting Good Corporate Governance Practices in Vietnam: A New Element in the Economic Reform Agenda -- 16. Corporate Governance in Vietnam’s Equitized Companies: Progressive Policies and Lax Realities -- INDEX
Summary: This multi-disciplinary volume provides a critical examination of corporate governance reform in Southeast Asia especially after the Asian financial crisis in 1997. The weaknesses in the corporate sector, such as poor investment structure, weak legal and accounting systems, faulty financial practices, questionable political interventions, are some of the pertinent issues raised by the authors, who include legal specialists, corporate practitioners, economists, and political scientists. Policy measures to improve corporate transparency, institutional accountability, and fiscal prudence are also proposed. The volume provides interested readers and policy-makers in Southeast Asia with the most current research and policy options on corporate governance reform, and advocates more committed and effective governance changes in the future.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. Overviews -- 1. Corporate Governance: An Alternative Model -- 2. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REFORMS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA -- 3. Disclosure, Reporting, and Derivative Actions: Empowering Shareholders in Southeast Asia -- 4. Governance Reforms in the Banking Sector in Southeast Asia: Economics and Institutional Imperatives -- Part II. Country Studies -- 5. Corporate Governance Reforms in Malaysia: Issues and 85 Challenges -- 6. Corporate Governance in Malaysia: Reforms in Light of Post-1998 Crisis -- 7. Indonesia’s Tolerated Low-Speed Reform of Corporate Governance -- 8. The Political Economy of Corporate Governance in Indonesia -- 9. Building Good Corporate Governance after the Crisis: The Experience of Thailand -- 10. National Corporate Governance Committee: Three Disciplines for Good Corporate Governance in Thailand -- 11. State of Corporate Governance Reforms in Singapore: Economic Realities, Political Institutions, and Regulatory Frameworks -- 12. Corporate Governance Reforms and the Management of the GLCs in Singapore: Pressures, Problems, and Paradoxes -- 13. From the Inside Out: Reforming Corporate Governance in the Philippines by Engaging the Private Sector -- 14. Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions: The Philippine Case -- 15. Promoting Good Corporate Governance Practices in Vietnam: A New Element in the Economic Reform Agenda -- 16. Corporate Governance in Vietnam’s Equitized Companies: Progressive Policies and Lax Realities -- INDEX

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This multi-disciplinary volume provides a critical examination of corporate governance reform in Southeast Asia especially after the Asian financial crisis in 1997. The weaknesses in the corporate sector, such as poor investment structure, weak legal and accounting systems, faulty financial practices, questionable political interventions, are some of the pertinent issues raised by the authors, who include legal specialists, corporate practitioners, economists, and political scientists. Policy measures to improve corporate transparency, institutional accountability, and fiscal prudence are also proposed. The volume provides interested readers and policy-makers in Southeast Asia with the most current research and policy options on corporate governance reform, and advocates more committed and effective governance changes in the future.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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