Women On Corporate Boards Of Directors

International Research and Practice
 

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Edited by Susan Vinnicombe, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Diversity Management, Director, International Centre for Women Leaders, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK, Val Singh, Reader in Corporate Diversity Management, Deputy Director, International Centre for Women Leaders, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK, Ronald J. Burke, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada, Diana Bilimoria, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University, US and Morten Huse, Professor of Organisation and Management, Norwegian School of Management, Norway


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Contents:

Introduction: Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: International Issues and Opportunities
Ronald J. Burke and Susan Vinnicombe

PART I: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Women Board Directors in the United States: An Eleven Year Retrospective
Lois Joy

2. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: The Canadian Perspective
Ronald J. Burke and Richard Lebranc

3. The Pipeline to the Board Finally Opens: Women’s Progress on FTSE 100 Boards in the UK
Ruth Sealy, Susan Vinnicombe and Val Singh

4. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: The French Perspective
Mairi Maclean and Charles Harvey

5. New Zealand Women Directors: Many Aspire but Few Succeed
Rosanne Hawarden and Ralph Stablein

6. ‘Glacial at Best’: Women’s Progress on Corporate Boards in Australia
Anne Ross-Smith and Jane Bridge

7. The Quota Story: Five Years of Change in Norway
Marit Hoel

8. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: The Icelandic Perspective
Thoranna Jónsdóttir

9. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors in Spanish Listed Companies
Celia de Anca

10. Contrasting Positions of Women Directors in Jordan and Tunisia
Val Singh

PART II: RESEARCH THEMES
11. Championing the Discussion of Tough Issues: How Women Corporate Directors Contribute to Board Deliberation
Nancy McInerney-Lacombe, Diana Bilimoria and Paul F. Salipante

12. Women Directors and the ‘Black Box’ of Board Behaviour
Morten Huse

13. Do Women Still Lack the ‘Right’ Kind of Human Capital for Directorships on the FTSE 100 Corporate Boards?
Siri Terjesen, Val Singh and Susan Vinnicombe

14. Examining Gendered Experiences Beyond the Glass Ceiling: The Precariousness of the Glass Cliff and the Absence of Rewards
Michelle K. Ryan, Clara Kulich, S. Alexander Haslam, Mette D. Hersby and Catherine Atkins

15. On the Progress of Corporate Women: Less a Glass Ceiling than a Bottleneck?
Dan R. Dalton and Catherine M. Dalton

16. ION: Organizational Networking to Harness Local Power for National Impact
Susan M. Adams, Patricia M. Flynn and Toni G. Wolfman

17. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: Best Practice Companies
Heather Foust-Cummings

18. Critical Mass: Does the Number of Women on a Corporate Board Make a Difference?
Sumru Erkut, Vicki W. Kramer and Alison M. Konrad

Conclusion: Directions for Future Research on Women on Corporate Boards of Directors
Diana Bilimoria
 


 

November 2008
c 272 pp
Hardback
978 1 84720 480 6
£ 69.95
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The Value Creating Board
Corporate governance and organizational behaviour 

Edited by Morten Huse
Price: £120.00

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ISBN: 978-0-415-43742-4
Binding: Hardback
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 12th November 2008
Pages: 560


 

 

About the Book

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.
Table of Contents

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)
About the Author(s)

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