종업원 중심형 기업지배구조의 형성과 사회통념에 관한 연구-점령기 요미우리신문 사설 분석을 중심으로-

There is a common perception that Japanese corporate governance has been major bank-centered in terms of ownership structure and employee-centered in terms of corporate management. This study pays attention to the characteristic of Japanese corporate governance focused on employees and a social norm which is one of social-cultural factor influencing on corporate governance formation. While corporate governance has been formed and established by system and practice, the social norm without sense and sociability shared by members of society would be difficult to be institutionalized. This study usedcontent analysis to examine agenda and argument of major media to find out the social norm of member in the society. Consequently, the study found that undergoing GHQ occupation, the occupation policy of GHQ, the practice of corporate reconstruction policy, the process of finding power balance between employee(worker) and stockholder(capitalist), social norms surroundingcompaniesinJapanhavebeenmodifiedfrom‘extremely employee-centered’ to ‘cooperative and growth-promoting employee-centered’ on the base of community sense.