{"id":1495,"date":"2021-04-06T11:24:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T02:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2021-05-14T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T05:42:39","slug":"%e7%ac%ac3%e5%9b%9e-wbs%e3%82%b0%e3%83%ad%e3%83%bc%e3%83%90%e3%83%ab%e3%82%a4%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b5%e3%82%a4%e3%83%88%e6%96%b0%e8%88%88%e5%b8%82%e5%a0%b4%e3%81%ab%e3%81%8a%e3%81%91%e3%82%8b-2-2-3-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/news-en\/1495","title":{"rendered":"A Webinar Series on: \u201cA New Concept of the Corporation\u201d Co-organized by RIETI, ECGI and WBF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/news\/1494\">\u21d2\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Webinar Series on:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cA New Concept of the Corporation\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Co-organized by RIETI, ECGI and WBF (Waseda University Institute for Business and Finance)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2: April 28<sup>th<\/sup> 16:00~17:30 JST (08:00~09:30 BST, 09:00~10:30 CET)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme: Fiduciary Duties under the New Conception of the Corporation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years, and particularly since the onset of COVID-19, the purpose of the corporation has been the subject of active debate. In place of shareholder value maximization, new definitions of corporate purpose have been proposed, and their implications for law, regulation, ownership, governance, measurement and performance of business have been much discussed.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the publication of the Japanese translation of Colin Mayer\u2019s book \u201cProsperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good\u201d in March 2021, WBF (Waseda University Institute of Business and Finance, together with RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry) and ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), jointly organize a webinar series on the new concept of the corporation, the EU\/UK experience and its lessons for Japanese corporate governance reforms.<\/p>\n<p>The second part of the webinar series was held online via Zoom webinar (Japanese simultaneous interpretation) and YouTube Live (English only). Please see the following for this video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RIETI ECGI WBF Webinar Series Part 2 \u201cA New Concept of the Corporation\u201d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L4eKtB7F6W0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details of This Webinar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Language: English (Japanese simultaneous interpretation will be provided)<\/p>\n<p>Target audiences: More expertized, ranging policy makers, market participants and business executives \/IR practitioners<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Topics: &#8211; New concept of the corporation<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Multi- vs single purpose debates<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; European \/UK experience on the purpose of firms and other international developments<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; UK: CG code revision in 2018, motivation and consequences<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Implication of the new concept of corporation for Japan:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The design of corporate law and interpretation of the duties of care of directors<\/p>\n<p>(2) Reconsidering the conventional stakeholder model in Japan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: \u00a0Marco Becht (Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles \/ ECGI\uff09<\/p>\n<p>Hideaki Miyajima (WBF \/ RIETI)<\/p>\n<p>Introduction: 3 min Introduction of WBF, Icko Suzuki (WBF \/ ECGI)<\/p>\n<p>Presentation 1: Colin Mayer (Oxford University, ECGI) 20 min<\/p>\n<p>Presentation 2: Jennifer Hill (Monash University, ECGI) 20 min<\/p>\n<p>Commentator 1: Katja Langenbucher (Goethe University, ECGI) 8 min<\/p>\n<p>Commentator 2: Gen Goto (University of Tokyo) 8 min<\/p>\n<p>Q\/A: 30 minutes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u25bdOther parts of this \u00a0webinar<\/p>\n<p>Part 1:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rieti.go.jp\/en\/events\/21031601\/info.html\">https:\/\/www.rieti.go.jp\/en\/events\/21031601\/info.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 3:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rieti.go.jp\/en\/events\/21052001\/info.html?ref=rss\">https:\/\/www.rieti.go.jp\/en\/events\/21052001\/info.html?ref=rss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25bdAbout RIETI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rieti.go.jp\/jp\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.rieti.go.jp\/jp\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25bdAbout ECGI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ecgi.global\/\">https:\/\/ecgi.global\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ECGI is a global research network and international scientific non-profit association providing a forum for debate and dialogue between academics, legislators and practitioners, focusing on major corporate governance and stewardship issues. It is a membership organisation open to all those with an interest in corporate governance and stewardship. Its 327 appointed research members publish their work on corporate governance in the ECGI Working Paper Series, a trusted source of global research used by practitioners and academics worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u21d2\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089 A Webinar Series on: \u201cA New Concept of the Corporation\u201d Co-organized by RIETI, ECGI and WBF (Wased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[82,28],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}