Blind spots, biases and other pathologies in the boardroom / Kenneth A. Merchant, Katharina Pick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merchant, Kenneth A.

Contributor:

Pick, Katharina.

Series:

Corporate governance collection, 1948-0415.

Corporate governance collection, 1948-0415

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boards of directors.

Corporate governance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Corporate governance is one of the hottest topics in the business world now, as it always is in times of stress. Some of the recently discovered scandals and corporate failures can be traced back to corporate governance failures. Boards of directors must share some of the blame in many of the failures. Something was not working right, even in some boardrooms full of highly qualified individuals. Boards have been criticized for being too large or too small, for having members who are not independent or who lack the requisite knowledge, or for enabling "bad apple" directors who are inattentive, weak, and even self-serving, among other things. But that is not at all what this book is about. In this book we show how seemingly ideal boards, those with "best practice" size, composition, and structure, can still fail to provide good governance simply because they fall victim to problems inherent in all groups.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Oversight by groups of board members

Chapter 2. Group influences on individual behavior

Chapter 3. Group cognitive limitations

Chapter 4. Group polarization

Chapter 5. Groupthink

Chapter 6. Group habitual routines

Chapter 7. Group conflict

Chapter 8. Power, coalition formation, and politicking

Chapter 9. Group productivity losses

Chapter 10. Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-145) and index.

Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on June 7, 2010).

ISBN:

9781780344096

1780344090

9781283892377

1283892375

9781606490716

1606490710

OCLC:

650219684

Publisher Number:

1 BEP