The Development of Corporate Governance in Japan and Britain Book

	List of Contributors
1	What is Corporate Governance? The Historical Implications	1
2	The Corporate Governance of Japanese Firms at the Early Stage of Industrialization: Osaka Cotton Spinning and Nippon Life Assurance	9
3	Corporate Governance, Business Organization and Competitiveness: British Business in the Inter-War Period	32
4	Corporate Governance in the Inter-War Zaibatsu	59
5	Corporate Governance in British Insurance: How the Phoenix Lost Norwich Union and Lived to Regret London Guarantee and Accident	73
6	Japanese Corporate Governance in the Major Life Assurance Companies: an Historical Perspective	108
7	The Main Bank System and Corporate Governance in Post-War Japan	124
8	Corporate Governance, Management and British Venture Capital since 1945	141
9	Authority and Direction in British Manufacturing Companies, 1945-2000: Models, Realities and Consequences	158
10	Corporate Governance and Management Structure: the Nationalised Railway Industry in Britain	176
11	Recent Changes in Inter-Firm Relations in Japan: the Six Largest Corporate Complexes	191
	Index	201