The Value Creating Board (eBook, ePUB)

Corporate Governance and Organizational Behaviour
Redaktion: Huse, Morten

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book breaks new ground, offering a major survey on boards of directors throughout various European countries, opening up the hitherto unexamined area of study of board behaviour and the workings of the value creating board.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134074167
• Artikelnr.: 47883944

Autorenporträt

Morten Huse is Professor of Organization and Management, Norwegian School of Management BI.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Introduction: The Value Creating Board and Behavioural Perspectives
1. The Value Creating Board and Behavioural Perspectives Morten Huse
2. Context, Behaviour and Evolution: Challenges in Research on Boards and
Governance Jonas Gabrielsson and Morten Huse
3. Accountability and Creating Accountability: A Framework for Exploring
Behavioural Perspectives of Corporate Governance Morten Huse
Part 2. Exploring Issues and Theories: The Classics - Developing a Field
4. Building Blocks in Understanding Behavioural Perspectives on Boards:
Developing a Research Stream Morten Huse
5. The President and the Board of Directors Miles L Mace
6. The Separation of Ownership and Control Eugene Fama and Michael Jensen
7. Boards of Directors and Corporate Financial Performance: A Review and
Research Agenda Shaker Zahra and John A Pearce
8. On Studying Managerial Elites Andrew Pettigrew
9. Cognition and Corporate Governance: Understanding Boards of Directors as
Strategic Decision-Making Groups Daniel Forbes and Frances Milliken
Part 3. Exploring Methods and Concepts
10. Exploring Methods and Concepts in Studies of Boards Processes Morten
Huse
11. Relational Norms as a Supplement to Neo-classical Understanding of
Directorates Morten Huse
12. Stakeholder Management and the Avoidance of Corporate Control Morten
Huse and Dorthe Eide
13. Researching the Dynamics of Board - Stakeholder Relations Morten Huse
14. Stakeholders' Expectations of Board Roles: The Case of Subsidiary
Boards Morten Huse and Violina Rindova
15. Corporate Boards as Assets for Operating in the New Europe: The Value
of Process-oriented Boardroom Dynamics Morten Huse, Alessandro Minichilli
and Margrethe Schøning
16. Gender Related Boardroom Dynamics Morten Huse and Anne Grethe Solberg
Part 4. Exploring Relationships: Results from 'The Value Creating Board'
Surveys
17. The 'Value Creating Board'-Surveys: A Benchmark Morten Huse
18. What Makes Boards in Small Firms Active? Mattias Nordqvist and
Alessandro Minichilli
19. How Actual Board Task Performance Influences Value Creating Boards in
Dutch SMEs Jeroen van den Heuvel and Anita van Gils
20. The Board's Control Tasks in Family Firms: Theoretical Perspectives and
Exploratory Evidence Yannick Bammens and Wim Voordeckers
21. Board Activity in Large Italian Companies: A Behavioural Perspective
Alessandro Minichilli, Alessandro Zattoni and Fabio Zona
22. Women Directors, Board Working Style and Board Task Performance Sabina
Nielsen
23. Board Task Performance in Small Firms: The Role of Incentives and Board
Processes Luca Gnan and Alessandro Zattoni
24. Trust and Board Task Performance Hans van Ees, Gerwin van der Laan and
Theo Postma
25. Consequences of Board Power Pingying Zhang Wenstøp
26. Boards of Directors and Firm Innovation: An Empirical Analysis on Large
Italian Companies Fabio Zona, Alessandro Minichilli and Alessandro Zattoni
27. Board Control and Innovation: An Empirical Study of Small Technology
Based Firms Jonas Gabrielsson and Diamanto Politis
Part 5. The Value Creating Board: Implications for Practice
28. How Boards Contribute to Value Creation Morten Huse, Jonas Gabrielsson
and Alessandro Minichilli