This paper posits that differences in corporate governance structure partly result from differences in institutional arrangements linked to business systems. We developed a new international triad of business systems: the Anglo-American, the Communitarian and the Emerging system, building on the...

This paper discusses the determinants of strategic transparency and its importance to the East Asian firms. Firm's strategic transparency is closely associated with firm's relative market position and the degree of competitiveness it can achieve. Accordingly, the governance structure is fairly...

The role of stakeholder frameworks in the success of business and society has recently become a crucial area of academic research. The purpose of this paper is to show the close compatibility between relatively strong banking industries and the values of stakeholder systems. Since the late...

This papers aims at discussing the determinants of strategic transparency and the governance structure of East Asian firms. The relatively weak institutional infrastructure in East Asia raises the question about the adaptable governance structure and transparency in East Asian firms

In information and service products such as open source software, increasing returns occur on the production or supply side, as well as network externalities on the demand side. For open source software, the social community element needs to be integrated with the framework of increasing...