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Trust, Firm Life Cycle, and Actual Board Behavior: Evidence from "One of the Lads" in the Board of Three Small Firms

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  • Morten Huse
  • Alessandro Zattoni

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Processes outside and inside the boardroom and actual board behavior in small firms are investigated in this empirical study where one of the authors was a participant observer. A firm's life-cycle approach was used. The study shows that actual board behavior changes along the life-cycle phases: in the start-up phase, board involvement is in legitimacy tasks; in the growth phase, board's involvement is in advisory tasks; and in the firm crisis stage, the board's involvement is in control tasks. We argue, based on the observations, that boards are empowered to these tasks based on different types of trust relationships between internal actors, external actors, and the board members.

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  • Morten Huse & Alessandro Zattoni, 2008. "Trust, Firm Life Cycle, and Actual Board Behavior: Evidence from "One of the Lads" in the Board of Three Small Firms," International Studies of Management & Organization, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 71-97, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:3:p:71-97
    DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380303
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    2. Brennan, Niamh M., 2021. "Connecting earnings management to the real World:What happens in the black box of the boardroom?," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(6).
    3. Ekaterina Bjørnåli & Sarosh Asad & Siri Terjesen, 2024. "Determinants of intra-board behavioral integration in high-tech start-ups," Journal of Management & Governance, Springer;Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), vol. 28(1), pages 215-236, March.
    4. Hanna Maria Sievinen & Tuuli Ikäheimonen & Timo Pihkala, 2022. "The role of dyadic interactions between CEOs, chairs and owners in family firm governance," Journal of Management & Governance, Springer;Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), vol. 26(1), pages 223-253, March.

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