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Worldwide Corporate Governance Convergence Within A Pluralistic Business Legal Order---Company Law And Independent Director System In Contemporary China , Chi-Wei Huang Aug 2007

Worldwide Corporate Governance Convergence Within A Pluralistic Business Legal Order---Company Law And Independent Director System In Contemporary China , Chi-Wei Huang

Chi-Wei Huang

Worldwide Corporate Governance Convergence within A Pluralistic Business Legal Order—Company Law and Independent Director System in Contemporary China

Chi-Wei Huang, S.J.D. University of Pennsylvania Law School March 29, 2007

Abstract:

A deeper tendency across developed market jurisdictions has been a convergence toward a single, standard corporate structure. The essential legal features of a shareholder-oriented ideology are well established among those developed market jurisdictions and noticeably dominate the development of worldwide corporate forms. Striving to increase long-term shareholder value has become the most competitive corporate governance theory among developed economies. A series of examinations of worldwide corporate governance and ownership have …