The corporate board : confronting the paradoxes / Ada Demb, F.-Friedrich Neubauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demb, Ada, author.

Neubauer, Franz-Friedrich, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Directors of corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on interviews with 70 company directors, this study of corporate governance and the role of the board of directors in modern multinational corporations examines the nature of the challenges faced and suggests ways to analyze and confront them.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Assessing the Discomfort; 2. Corporate Governance: Lifespace and Accountability; 3. The ""Job"" of the Board: Defining the Portfolio; 4. Whose Responsibility: The Board or Management?; 5. Commitment and Depth Versus Detachment and Breadth; 6. ""Cozy Club"" Versus Independent ""Personalities""; 7. Dealing with Board Performance; 8. Imperatives for the Twenty-first Century; Name Index; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770271-6

1-280-52585-1

0-19-536139-3

1-4294-0729-8

OCLC:

476012926