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Informationen zum Autor Morten Huse is Professor of Organization and Management, Norwegian School of Management BI. Klappentext This book presents boards of directors from a strategic and entrepreneurial management perspective. Boards of directors are receiving increased interest in the business world as well as among academic audiences however few contributions integrate corporate governance and organizational behavior. In this book a research stream about value-creating boards is introduced. Boards of directors have during the recent decades mostly been studied within a framework of corporate governance where the interests of external investors are emphasized. This book aims to go further and explore actual board behavior. The framework and the contributions in the book include concepts such as: board leadership and structure, boardroom decision-making, board task performance corporate entrepreneurship and innovation boards in small and medium-sized firms board diversity and women directors The book also presents the results of a research agenda about value-creating boards which was conducted throughout various European countries. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
