The Value Creating Board: Corporate Governance and Organizational Behaviour

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ISBN: 9780415437424 | 0415437423
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Copyright: 1/2/2009

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This book breaks new ground, offering amajor survey on boards of directorsthroughout various European countries, opening up thehitherto unexamined area of study of board behaviour and the workings of the value creating board.

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
List of Contributors	p. xv
Introduction: The value creating board and behavioural perspectives	p. 1
The value creating board and behavioural perspectives	p. 3
Context, behaviour and evolution: Challenges in research on boards and governance	p. 10
Accountability and creating accountability: A framework for exploring behavioural perspectives of corporate governance	p. 33
Exploring issues and theories: The classics-developing a field	p. 55
Building blocks in understanding behavioural perspectives of boards: Developing a research stream	p. 57
The president and the board of directors: Generally accepted roles of corporate boards have little relationship to what they in fact do and do not do in actual practice	p. 69
Separation of ownership and control	p. 90
Boards of directors and corporate financial performance: A review and integrative model	p. 112
On studying managerial elites	p. 161
Cognition and corporate governance: Understanding boards of directors as strategic decision making groups	p. 190
Exploring methods and concepts	p. 219
Exploring methods and concepts in studies of board processes	p. 221
Relational norms as a supplement to neo-classical understandings of directorates: An empirical study of boards of directors	p. 234
Stakeholder management and the avoidance of corporate control	p. 256
Researching the dynamics of board-stakeholder relations	p. 286
Stakeholders' expectations of board roles: The case of subsidiary boards	p. 302
Corporate boards as assets for operating in the new Europe: The value of process-oriented boardroom dynamics	p. 329
Gender-related boardroom dynamics: How Scandinavian women make and can make contributions on corporate boards	p. 344
Exploring relationships: Results from the 'value creating board' surveys	p. 365
The value creating board surveys: A benchmark	p. 367
Board activity and task performance
What makes boards in small firms active?	p. 384
How actual board task performance influences value creation in Dutch SMEs	p. 398
The board's control tasks in family firms: Theoretical perspectives and exploratory evidence	p. 413
Board working style and structures
Board activity in large Italian companies: A behavioural perspective	p. 423
Women directors, board working style and board task performance	p. 437
Board task performance in small firms: The role of personal incentives and board processes	p. 452
Trust and power
Trust and board task performance	p. 471
Consequences of board power	p. 482
Boards and corporate innovation
Boards of directors and firm innovation: An empirical analysis on large Italian companies	p. 495
Board control and innovation: An empirical study of small technology-based firms	p. 505
The value creating board: Implications for practice	p. 521
How boards contribute to value creation	p. 523
Keyword index	p. 533
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