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Styreoppgaver i vekstbedrifter
No full textNyere forskning på styrer og ledelse viser stadig større interesse for hvordan situasjonsbestemte variabler påvirker styrets sammensetning og atferd. I denne artikkelen ser vi nærmere på styreoppgaver i ulike faser av bedriftens livssyklus. Vi sammenlikner styreoppgaver i vekstbedrifter med styreoppgaver i andre faser av bedriftens livssyklus. Vi har valgt en inndeling i ulike livssyklusfaser basert på dimensjoner av organisasjoners kontekst og struktur, og ikke med utgangspunkt i størrelse og alder. I artikkelen trekker vi frem styrets involvering i oppgaver knyttet til rådgivning, kontroll og nettverksbygging. Resultatet av en undersøkelse blant 467 norske bedrifter viste at styrer er spesielt aktive i vekstbedrifter. I vekstfasen deltar de aktivt i så vel rådgivning og kontroll som nettverksbygging. Vi fant videre at rådgivningsoppgavene er spesielt viktig i etableringsfasen og kontroll i strukturutbyggingsfasen.I nyetablerte virksomheter engasjerer styret seg ofte i internt rettede oppgaver, og styremedlemmene ser behovet for å hjelpe den nyetablerte ledelsen. I senere faser av bedriftens utvikling er det tilsvarende vekt på eksternt rettede oppgaver (så som kontroll og nettverksbygging)
How Boards Contribute to Value Creation
No full textResearch about boards and governance has generally had limited practical implications. In this article we present some of the practical implications from the ’value creating board’- research program. Challenges for practice and organizational behaviour include how boards may contribute to value creation throughout the whole value chain, the importance of board leadership and how systems for board evaluations can be developed. We indicate that the emphasis on the ‘value creating boards’ have some of the features of a new research stream or field of research
Corporate Boards as Assets for Operating in the New Europe: the Value of Process-Oriented Boardroom Dynamics
No full textSome would say that we are now in the golden age of board governance. Boards of directors have recently been accorded enormous attention, and board roles have experienced considerable change. The last 10 years, in fact, can be looked at as the decade of
board transformation. Various waves of shareholder activism have contributed to changing some boards from being relatively ineffectual pawns or ornaments on a corporate Christmas tree, to security guard-like
monitors of managerial opportunism. However, security guards are not known for understanding or adjusting to corporate norms and standards, and many thus may
have a stronger focus on shareholder value and value distribution than on corporate value creation with a broader stakeholder perspective
Crossroads of Entrepreneurship
No full textA collection of papers, prepared for the conference "The new frontiers of entrepreneurship" - celebration for the centennial of Bocconi Universit
Does family involvement influence firm performance? Exploring the mediating effects of board processes and tasks
No full textFollowing calls to capture the consequences of family involvement in the business, this article
empirically investigates the mediating role of board processes (i.e., effort norms, use of knowledge and skills, and cognitive conflicts) and board (control and strategy) tasks in the relationship between family involvement and firm performance in small and medium-sized companies.
To address this purpose, we developed a theoretical model using family business and corporate
governance literature. We collected data from one sample of small and medium-sized enterprises,
and we applied structural equation modeling to validate and test constructs and relationships.
Our results show that (a) family involvement in the business has a positive impact on effort norms
and use of knowledge and skills, and a negative one on cognitive conflicts, (b) board processes
have generally a positive influence on board tasks performance, and (c) board strategy task
performance positively influences firm financial performance, while board control tas
Entrepreneurship: the Italian story
No full textHistorical evolution of entrepreneurial role and behavior in Ital
Understanding the leadership role of the board chairperson through a team production approach
No full textCurrent corporate governance recommendations – rooted in an investor-based shareholder supremacy model – often narrowly discuss the issue of board leadership as whether or not there is a separation of the CEO and chairperson positions. In this article we employ a team production approach to better understand the leadership role of the board chairperson. We argue that effective board performance is driven by the extent to which corporate directors bring relevant knowledge into the boardroom. An important prerequisite is however that the knowledge must be actively used. In line with this argument, we contend that the competencies and behaviors of the board chairperson are critical in order to unleash a board’s value creating potential
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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