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25th and 26th of May 2017St Antony’s College, University of OxfordDay 1: Thursday 25th May, 2017Session 1: Structural Crisis, Economic Policy and Institutions The Economic Policies Innovations After the 2008 Crisis: The US, the EU and China: comparing a federal State, a multilevel governance and a party-State, Robert Boyer (EHESS) Profitability or Longevity? Cross-Country Variations in Corporate Performance, Shinichi Hirota (Waseda University) The Growth and Challenge of Samsung and Hyundai-Kia, Nam Lee (Chung-Ang University &#38; EHESS)Session 2: Boards and Diversity of Voice in Corporate Governance Professionals on Corporate Boards: Under What Circumstances Do They Affect The Bottom Line?, Mari Sako (University of Oxford) and Katsuyuki Kubo (Waseda University) Board diversity in Japan: the role of female director, Thi Phuong Thanh Ngyuen (Waseda Univerity) Does Employee Stock Ownership Work? Evidence from Publicly - Traded Firms in Japan, Hideo Owan (Waseda University)Session 3: Stock Markets and Listing Behaviour Going Public in Bear Markets, Pengda Fan­ (Waseda University) Are future Capital Gain Opportunities Important in the market for corporate control? Evidence from China (with Liping Dong and Xiaohong Hou), Konari Uchida (Waseda University) The Determinants of Listing Decisions of Companies. Evidence from France during the Belle Epoque, Jérémy Ducros (EHESS)Session 4: Structural Change, its Processes and Effects Uneven use of Non-regular Workers at the Corporate Level. Investigating the Japanese Case, Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS), Y. Goto, H. Teruyama (Waseda University) Financialization and Corporate Heterogeneity: An Investigation of Firm-level Investment behaviour in South Korea, 1990 -­2016, Pauline Debanes (EHESS) Environmental Responsibilities in Japan and Germany. A Qualitative Study on Actors' Perceptions and Practices, Julia Bartosch (Freie Universitat Berlin)Keynote Evolution of Ownership and Control Around The World: The Changing Face Of Capitalism, Colin Mayer (University of Oxford)Day 2: Friday 26th May, 2017Session 5: Entrepreneurship Organization of Value Creation and Work in the Japanese Wind Power Industry: Outline of a Study of Organizational Diversity in Face of Institutional Change, Jörg Sydow and Manuel Nicklich (Freie Universitat Berlin) IT Startup Communities and Ecosystems – a Comparison Between Tokyo and Bangalore, Agata Kapturkiewicz (University of Oxford) Changing Institutional Settings for Start-­ups: The Role of Institutional Organizations in Japan, Jörg Sydow and Thomas Schmidt (Freie Universitat Berlin)Session 6:  Activism and Anti-­‐Discrimination Policy Globalisation and Institutional Change – Anti-­discrimination in Japan in 2016 (and beyond?), Ian Neary (University of Oxford) Lawyers, Collective Actions and Legislative Changes in Japan, Adrienne Sala (EHESS) Alt-­labour Activists as Field Challengers in the Japanese Labour Movement, Jan Niggemeier (Freie Universitat Berlin)