Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5092777 | Journal of Comparative Economics | 2007 | 23 Pages |
Abstract
Japan's economic problems over the past decade and a half have triggered far reaching changes in the country's corporate governance system and there have been significant changes in both companies' ownership structures and composition of board members. This paper examines how board and ownership structures affect firms' decision as to how to reduce labor costs when firms face excess employment. Our findings confirm that outside directors are more inclined to implement layoffs and voluntary or early retirement, while insiders are more likely to decrease new hiring and protect incumbent employees. These findings are consistent with the stakeholder view of the firm rather than the neoclassical view of the firms as a profit-maximizer. Journal of Comparative Economics 35 (2) (2007) 346-368.
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Authors
Naohito Abe, Satoshi Shimizutani,