Convergence of Corporate Governance

RUTH V. AGUILERA Associate Professor and a Fellow at the Center for Professional Responsibility for Business and Society at the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USACHRISTINA L. AHMADJIAN Professor of Management at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, JapanKIMBERLY A. BATES Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, Canada DANE P. BLEVINS PhD student focusing in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Dallas, USAROBERTO GARCÍA-CASTRO Assistant Professor of managerial decision sciences at IESE Business School, SpainHENRY HANSMANN Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, USAILIR HAXHI(-KRISTO) Assistant Professor of Strategy and Corporate Governance at University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands DEAN A. HENNESSY Professor of Strategic Management at ESG Management School in Paris, FranceHICHEON KIM Professor of Strategy and Organization at Korea University Business School, KoreaREINIER KRAAKMAN Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor Law at the Harvard Law School, USAJI-HWAN LEE Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management at the Graduate School of Management, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KoreaMARIUS LUBER Doctoral student at the Institute of Strategic Management at the University of Munich, GermanyMIKE W. PENG Jindal Chair of Global Strategy at the Jindal School ofManagement, University of Texas at Dallas, USANANDINI RAJAGOPALAN Capt. Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USAKATARINA SIKAVICA Post-Doctoral Researcher and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Management, Munich School of Management, Munich, GermanyLAI SI TSUI-AUCH Associate Professor of Management at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, SingaporeANJA TUSCHKE Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Munich, GermanyYAN (ANTHEA) ZHANG Professor of Strategic Management in the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, USA

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Convergence of Corporate Governance: Promise and Prospects; A.A.Rasheed    T.Yoshikawa Reflections on the End of History for Corporate Law; H.Hansmann  & R.Kraakman Does Convergence in Regulation Lead to Convergence in Practice? The Case of Dissident Proxy Contests in Canada; K.A.Bates  & D.A.Hennessy Corporate Governance in Germany: Converging Towards Shareholder Value-Orientation or Not So Much?; A.Tuschke  & M.Luber Corporate Governance in India: Progress, Problems, and Prospects; N.Rajagopalan  & Y.Zhang Corporate Governance Convergence in Japan; C.L.Ahmadjian Transformation of Corporate Governance in Korea; H.Kim  & Ji-H.Lee Converging Divergence in Corporate Governance in Singapore; L.S.Tsui-Auch A Decade of Corporate Governance Reforms in Spain (2000-2010); R.Garcia-Castro  & R.V.Aguilera Globalization and Corporate Governance Convergence: The Multinational Corporations as a Neglected Agent of Convergence; K.Sikavica  & T.Yoshikawa Are Codes Fostering Convergence in Corporate Governance? An Institutional Perspective; I.Haxhi  & R.V.Aguilera Why Do Chinese Firms Cross-list in the United States?; M.W.Peng  & D.P.Blevins