The Value Creating Board Corporate governance and organizational behaviour Edited by Morten Huse fj Routledge jjj^^ Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK
Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface List of Contributors ix xi xiii xv PARTI Introduction: The value creating board and behavioural perspectives 1 1 The value creating board and behavioural perspectives 3 2 Context, behaviour and evolution: Challenges in research on boards and governance 10 JONAS GABRIELSSON AND 3 Accountability and creating accountability: A framework for exploring behavioural perspectives of corporate governance 33 PARTn Exploring issues and theories: The classics - developing afield 55 4 Building blocks in understanding behavioural perspectives of boards: Developing a research stream 57
vi Contents 5 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 69 MYLESL. MACE 6 Separation of ownership and control 90 EUGENE F. FAMA AND MICHAEL C. JENSEN 7 Boards of directors and corporate financial performance: A review and integrative model 112 SHAKER A. ZAHRA AND JOHN A. PEARCE II 8 On studying managerial elites 161 ANDREW M. PETTIGREW 9 Cognition and corporate governance: Understanding boards of directors as strategic decision making groups 190 DANIEL P. FORBES AND FRANCES J. MILLIKEN PART m Exploring methods and concepts 219 10 Exploring methods and concepts in studies of board processes 221 11 Relational norms as a supplement to neo-classical understandings of directorates: An empirical study of boards of directors 234 12 Stakeholder management and the avoidance of corporate control 256 AND DORTHE EIDE 13 Researching the dynamics of board-stakeholder relations 286
Contents vii 14 Stakeholders' expectations of board roles: The case of subsidiary boards 302 AND VIOLINA P. RINDOVA 15 Corporate boards as assets for operating in the new Europe: The value of process-oriented boardroom dynamics 329, ALESSANDRO MINICHILLI AND MARGRETHE SCH0NING 16 Gender-related boardroom dynamics: How Scandinavian women make and can make contributions on corporate boards 344 AND ANNE GRETHE SOLBERG PART IV Exploring relationships: Results from the 'value creating board' surveys 365 17 The value creating board surveys: A benchmark 367 Board activity and task performance 18 What makes boards in small firms active? 384 MATTIAS NORDQVIST AND ALESSANDRO MINICHILLI 19 How actual board task performance influences value creation in Dutch SMEs 398 JEROEN VAN DEN HEUVEL AND ANITA VAN GILS 20 The board's control tasks in family firms: Theoretical perspectives and exploratory evidence 413 YANNICK BAMMENS AND WIM VOORDECKERS Board working style and structures 21 Board activity in large Italian companies: A behavioural perspective 423 ALESSANDRO MINICHILLI, ALESSANDRO ZATTONI AND FABIO ZONA
viii Contents 22 Women directors, board working style and board task performance 437 SABINA NIELSEN 23 Board task performance in small firms: The role of personal incentives and board processes 452 LUCA GNAN AND ALESSANDRO ZATTONI Trust and power 24 Trust and board task performance 471 HANS VAN EES, GERWIN VAN DER LAAN AND THEO J. B. M. POSTMA 25 Consequences of board power 482 PINGYING ZHANG WENST0P Boards and corporate innovation 26 Boards of directors and firm innovation: An empirical analysis on large Italian companies 495 FABIO ZONA, ALESSANDRO MINICHILLI AND ALESSANDRO ZATTONI 27 Board control and innovation: An empirical study of small technology-based firms 505 JONAS GABRIELSSON AND DIAMANTO POLITIS PARTV The value creating board: Implications for practice 521 28 How boards contribute to value creation 523, JONAS GABRIELSSON AND ALESSANDRO MINICHILLI Keyword index 533