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  title info:
    title: Boards at work
    sub title: how directors view their roles and responsibilities
  name:
    name part: Stiles, Philip.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Taylor, Bernard
    name part: 1931-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 164 pages) : tables
  abstract: Boards of directors are coming under increasing scrutiny in terms of their contribution in monitoring and controlling management, particularly in the wake of high-profile corporate frauds and failures, and also their potential to add value to organizational performance through involvement in the strategy process and through building relationships with key investors. Despite the importance of these issues, not only to organizations but also arguably to national competitiveness, the nature of board activity remains largely a black box, clouded by prescriptions, prejudices, and half-truths. This book responds to calls for greater scrutiny of boards of directors with an in-depth examination of directors of UK organizations, drawing on the accounts of directors themselves as to their roles, influence, and the potential and limits to their power. Much work on boards of directors has labelled the board as a rubber stamp for dominant management, and non-executive directors in particular have been variously described as poodles, pet rocks, or parsley on the fish.; Such accounts are rooted in assumptions of board activity that are essentially adversarial in nature, and that the solution to the 'problem' of reconciling the interests of managers with those of shareholders is to increase the checks and balances available to the board of directors. The findings of this study show that boards, in many cases, are far more than passive rubber stamps for management and that non-executives are encouraged to act as trusted advisers to the executives and the chief executive, rather than solely monitors of executive activity. Boards are important mechanisms in maintaining the strategic framework of the organization through setting the boundaries of organizational activity. The potential of the board members, in particular the non-executives, to fulfil such a mandate depends on a number of factors, including ability, willingness to engage with the organizational issues, and the degree of …
  note: Philip Stiles and Bernard Taylor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-153) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Corporate governance
  subject:
    topic: Directors of corporations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Directors of corporations
  subject:
    topic: Corporate governance
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Boards of directors
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Gouvernement d'entreprise
  subject:
    topic: Administrateurs de sociétés
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
  subject:
    topic: Administrateurs de sociétés
  subject:
    topic: Gouvernement d'entreprise
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
  subject:
    topic: Conseils d'administration
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
  subject:
    topic: directors (administrators)
  subject:
    topic: Boards of directors
  subject:
    topic: Corporate governance
  subject:
    topic: Directors of corporations
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
  classification: HD2745 .S755 2001eb
  classification: 658.4
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    origin info:
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  record info:
    record content source: CDX
    record creation date: 010105
    record change date: 20260318173231.9
    record identifier: in00005702634
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng