.... Disclosure, Corporate governance Annual reports Agency theory Voluntary disclosures Resource allocation Boards of directors Board roles Information asymmetry Top management Stakeholders Corporate Governance (CG) entails ensuring transparency to capital markets, regulators, governments...

... of the strategy map to communicate the firm's business model to the board. Norman T. Sheehan can be contacted at: Sheehan@edwards.usask.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Corporate governance Chief executive officers Boards of directors Communication skills Business models...

... technology Communication Boards of directors Each of the value drivers can be affected by specific actions, such as the ones shown on Table I . These actions can affect the drivers of shareholder value by either changing what an organization does, or improving the way it does it. Table I can...

... will direct more attention to CEO succession and its challenges. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Chief executives Management succession Succession planning Boards of Directors In the last two issues of the Journal of Business Strategy we provided a two‐part...

...Dan R. Dalton; Catherine M. Dalton Purpose The purpose of the paper is to look at CEO succession in light of regulations and post‐Sarbanes‐Oxley (post‐SOX) dynamics. Design/methodology/approach Describes best‐in‐class practices for boards of directors responsible for CEO...

... argued that the formal CEO succession process is in disrepair. The post‐SOX dynamics described in previous sections promise to even further confound boards of directors' responsibilities for succession planning and execution. Practical implications The paper provides executives...

...@indiana.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Boards of Directors Corporate governance Disclosure Financial management Related party transactions, like many other aspects of corporate governance, have received renewed attention in the post‐Enron era. While Enron has become a bit...

... or wrongly, suspect. The issue for us, however, extends well beyond Coca‐Cola's compensation program. A larger question is whether, or to what extent, boards of directors should be subject to contingent compensation. If such arrangements are not formulated and implemented with considerable care, contingent...

.... Findings One answer to the continued failure of corporate governance, albeit not likely the answer, is a misplaced focus on structural aspects of the board of directors at the expense of process issues. Practical implications Provides executives with information on important factors...

...Grahame Dowling Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the major sources of risk to a company's reputation that a board of directors should take responsibility for monitoring. Design/methodology/approach The paper looks at numerous corporate scandals around the world...

... Publishing Limited 2006 Boards of Directors Corporate governance Business development 1. Scenario 1. Consider a firm with stable earnings (call that $1), 0 percent growth, and a 14 percent discount rate. Then the value of the firm is $7.14 (earnings divided by the discount date...

... Publishing Limited 2005 Corporate governance Boards of Directors Europeans Surveys This is the fourth edition of the biennial Heidrick & Struggles' corporate governance study, which documents the movement of some 300 of Europe's top companies towards best practices in corporate...

... are not advocating maverick leadership. On the contrary, we would suggest that unity of command, well executed, actually minimizes such propensities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Boards of directors Corporate governance Chief executives Chairmen The motto for the seal of the United...

...Bob Garratt Purpose This essay argues that many directors are never inducted and developed into their board directoral roles. By not understanding their legal roles and tasks as a director, as distinct from a manager, they can rarely extract themselves for long enough to become skilled...

...; elimination of executive committees; refraining from related party transactions. Practical implications Provides managers with information on important factors to consider when selecting, measuring and evaluating boards of directors. Originality/value Of particular value to CEOs...

... Group Publishing Limited 2005 Boards of Directors Corporate governance A number of states (e.g. California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas) have adopted or are considering SOX‐like provisions...

.../value Of particular value to CEOs and other board members and outside recruiters of board members. We have outlined but a few of the potential benefits of a LID. There are numerous additional ways in which this individual can aid the effective functioning of a corporate board of directors...