We investigate shareholder meeting data of French, Japanese, and UK indexed companies over the period from 2010 to 2015. For French and Japanese companies, a 10 percent increase in ownership by foreign well-diversified institutional investors decreases the approval rate by 6 – 8.5 percent when...

In recent years, Vietnamese courts have faced a caseload that is increasing at a rate of ten to twelve percent annually. The Economic Courts, which handle business related cases, have been most affected by this trend, seeing the growth in their caseload outpace that in the regular civil court...

The comparatively modest and differently structured compensation that Japanese corporate executives receive has sparked recent interest in the determinants of executive pay in Japan. One factor that remains unexamined is the role played by Article 361 of the Companies Act which requires that...

This paper reviews a set of 230 judicial decisions collected by the author which Japanese courts rendered in disputes over claims of corporate directors to their pay between 1953 and 2018 in order to investigate what role litigation in the courts has played in relation to Japan's executive...