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The Imperative of Rapid Adaptation to Climate Change: Are the Lights On in the Boardroom?

In: Global Boards

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  • Malcolm McIntosh

    (Coventry University)

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Corporate governance is challenged on several fronts as we come to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. “Are the lights on the boardroom” alludes to the work rate of board members, to their ability to be connected to extreme global change and to be educated enough and competent when faced with a world that is changing around them. After all, the evidence states unambiguously that most board members of global corporations are linked, are incestuous, and share each others’ boards, interests, clubs and limitations (Kakabadse and Kakabadse, 2008). How then can they cope with the onslaught — and what is that onslaught?

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  • Malcolm McIntosh, 2009. "The Imperative of Rapid Adaptation to Climate Change: Are the Lights On in the Boardroom?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Andrew Kakabadse & Nada Kakabadse (ed.), Global Boards, chapter 11, pages 266-278, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-25051-2_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230250512_12
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