Corporate Governance: Volume 11 Issue 5

The role of boards in small and medium sized firms

Mette Neville

This paper aims to investigate the role of boards in owner‐managed small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), and seeks answers to the questions of whether boards generally enhance…

Do fiduciary duties matter?

A. Joseph Warburton

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether fiduciary duties impact the behavior of firm insiders. Trust law imposes stricter fiduciary obligations on insiders than corporate…

The role of board and CEO in managing societal and political intangibles

Stefan Schepers

Companies are looking for new ways to embed themselves in the societies in which they operate and for more constructive engagement with public authorities as new sources of…

Joint management‐stakeholder committees – a new path to stakeholder governance?

Heiko Spitzeck, Erik G. Hansen, David Grayson

This paper aims to describe the emerging practice of joint management‐stakeholder‐committees (JMSCs) in which corporate executives take decisions in collaboration with…

The relationship between corporate governance, global governance, and sustainable profits: lessons learned from BP

Nick Lin‐Hi, Igor Blumberg

The recent oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico as well as a multitude of other corporate scandals repeatedly draw attention to the importance of good corporate governance…

Income differentials and corporate performance

Adrian Pryce, Nada K. Kakabadse, Tom Lloyd

This paper seeks to make the case for new research into the perceived fairness and impact of executive pay.

In touch boards: reaching out to the value critical stakeholders

Paul Strebel

The purpose of this paper is to show how boards can get in touch with their value critical stakeholders, those who can make or break the company.

Corporate governance: quo vadis?

E. Isaac Mostovicz, Nada K. Kakabadse, Andrew Kakabadse

This paper aims to examine current research trends into corporate governance and to propose a different dynamic, humanistic approach based on individual purpose, values and…

The principal role of the board of directors: the duty to say “no”

Alexander Bukhvalov, Barbara Bukhvalova

This paper aims to explain a new idea for the corporate board's main agenda, which should dramatically increase the scale of problems with which the board deals. This agenda also…

Call for reviewers for Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society

Introduction

Lutgart Van den Berghe, Abigail Levrau, Naomi Chambers, Joris-Johann Lenssen