Constitution of the board to improve corporate governance

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330027
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Civil law
• Research Institution: Gakushuin University
• Principal Investigator: Kozuka Souichirou 学習院大学, 法学部, 教授 (30242085)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): XU Peng 法政大学, 比較経済研究所, 教授 (60247111) ; OSUGI Kenichi 中央大学, 法務研究科, 教授 (80233112) ; MATSUI Tomoyo 上智大学, 法学研究科, 准教授 (70313062) ; MATSUNAKA Manabu 名古屋大学, 法学研究科, 准教授 (20518039)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 会社法 / コーポレート・ガバナンス / 独立役員 / 取締役会 / 民事法学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project has conducted the empirical study of independent directors, which has emerged as the key element of corporate governance and recently introduced also in Japan. As the issue is being discussed in various jurisdictions in the world, we organised the international joint project on comparative studies of independent directors in Asian jurisdictions, together with the National University of Singapore, the University of Sydney and Max-Planck-Institute for comparative and international private law. To this comparative study, this project has provided the theoretical framework as well as the empirical analysis of Japan. Furthermore, this project examined the diversity of board members, as it is becoming the issue of corporate governance debates, in particular, in Europe.

Free Research Field

民事法学