Boards, Governance and Value Creation
The Human Side of Corporate Governance

This 2007 book looks at boards and how they can best achieve their task expectations.

Morten Huse (Author)

9780521844604, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 April 2007

392 pages
22.8 x 16.1 x 2.8 cm, 0.75 kg

'… a powerful lens to observe and understand corporate governance and boards …' Journal of Management and Governance

What is the role of boards in corporate governance? How should they be structured in order to maximize value creation? This 2007 book looks at the role of boards in a variety of different countries and contexts, from small and medium-sized enterprises to large corporations. It explores the working style of boards and how they can best achieve their task expectations. Board effectiveness and value creation are shown to be the results of interactions between owners, managers, board members and other actors. Board behaviour is thus seen to be a result of strategizing, norms, board leadership, and the decision-making culture within the boardroom. Combining value creation, behavioural and ethical approaches to the study of boards, this work offers a systematic framework which will be of value to graduate students and researchers in the field of corporate social responsibility and business ethics.

Foreword
1. Understanding boards and governance
2. Internal and external actors: defining corporate governance
3. Board task expectations: contributions from theory
4. The board members
5. Context and resources
6. Interactions: trust, power and strategizing
7. Structures and codes, norms and leadership
8. Decision-making: the boardroom culture
9. Actual board task performance
10. The value creating board
11. An ABC of boards
Appendix
Endnotes
Index
References.

Subject Areas: Boards & directors: role & responsibilities [KJRD], International business [KJK], Business ethics & social responsibility [KJG]