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What is Corporate Culture?

2012-08-03 posted by

The most important step to introduce successful planned change management programs is to understand the corporate culture of an organization.

We all know that companies with outstanding financial performance often have powerful corporate cultures, suggesting that “culture” is the key to an organization’s success.

Cultural change does not happen in an organization; it is usually result of a complex change strategy implemented by company’s management.

Let’s examine what is corporate culture all about:

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GovernanceMetrics’ Women on Boards Report

2012-08-02 posted by

The third editon of GovernanceMetrics’ Women on Boards report is released amidst the increasingly vigorous debate on gender diversity and its importance in the boardroom. Overall, the number of women on boards has increased in the last year, but only modestly. This has lead to greater momentum for interventon by governments and regulators to either impose quotas or require companies to put specific plans in place to achieve greater gender diversity on their board.

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BDTI to Hold its Next English “Director Boot Camp”

2012-07-31 posted by

BDTI will hold its next English-language Director Boot Camp on Tuesday, September 25th. Thisintensive programteachesparticipantsthe keylegal and corporate governance knowledgethey need to responsibly serve on, report to, or analyze boards of Japanese companies, both public and private. The course consists of short lectures interspersed with ample time for interactive discussion and questions-and-answers about real-life situations […]

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Jay Nelson Commenting on “Whither Sony” on CNBC

2012-07-31 posted by

Whither Sony continues to be the subject of discussion. In the U.S., the question is raised as one of strategy, as in where can their strategy go now,compared to Apple or Samsung? whereas in Japan, Sony's name is oftenraisedas the evidence that having outside directorsgoes not seem to improve corporate performance.And of course there are many points of view in between.

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Establishing a Subsidiary in Japan-The Choice Between a Kabushiki Kaisha and a Godo Kaisha

2012-07-27 posted by

Attached is the Corporate Counselor’s July newsletter, which discusses the principal differences between two common corporate forms in Japan — a kabushiki kaisha (the equivalent of an ordinary corporation or “c-corporation” in the United States) and a godo kaisha (the equivalent of a limited liability company/LLC in the United States).

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Detecting and Predicting Accounting Irregularities: A Comparison of Commercial and Academic Risk Measures

2012-07-23 posted by

[ABSTRACT] Although a substantial body of academic research is devoted to developing and testing risk proxies that detect accounting irregularities, the academic literature has paid little attention to commercially developed risk measures. This is surprising given the general consensus that academic risk measures have relatively poor construct validity. We compare the commercially developed Accounting and […]

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