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  • Nominating Committee Also Has Problems Achieving Only Formal Criteria of Corporate Governance Code


Nominating Committee Also Has Problems Achieving Only Formal Criteria of Corporate Governance Code

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Nominating Committee’s main activity is the selection of individual director candidates, and the Nominating Committee tends to be less involved in issues related to top management appointments, including succession planning.
  • Although most companies have a majority of independent directors as members of the nominating committee, the nominating committee may in fact be a body that approves top management’s proposals.
  • Companies focus only on prime market listing criteria of “committee establishment and committee member composition” and overlook original intent. The problem is that it’s all about achieving the formal criteria.

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