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Corporate Governance and the Board

In: Theory and Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility

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  • Donald Nordberg

    (Westminster University)

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What is a board of directors to do, in the face of competing demands on the resources of the company and conflicting perspectives on what their roles are and should be? Corporate governance has become a central theme in management in the past two decades owing to a string of major corporate failures and evidence that the boards of these companies either failed to grasp the scale of the problems or failed to stand up to managers. Those corporations might have set out upon the wrong strategy, or engaged in fraud, or unethical behaviour, or simply suffered from bad luck. Their failures have led to a debate both with industry and in public policy about what mechanisms might prevent a recurrence, not least because they show how great the influence of the corporate sector is on society at large. In this chapter we consider how boards contribute to governing the corporation, the tensions they face along the way, and how theories of corporate governance point to the persistence of those tensions.

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  • Donald Nordberg, 2011. "Corporate Governance and the Board," Springer Books, in: Samuel O. Idowu & Celine Louche (ed.), Theory and Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility, chapter 0, pages 39-53, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-16461-3_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16461-3_3
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    1. Baldacchino & P.J. & Callus & A. & Tabone & N. & Ellul & L. & Grima & S., 2022. "The Barriers and Effectiveness of Management Monitoring by Maltese Listed Boards*," International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, vol. 12(2), pages 92-127.
    2. Baldacchino & P.J. & Callus & A. & Tabone & N. & Ellul & L. & Grima & S., 2022. "The Barriers and Effectiveness of Management Monitoring by Maltese Listed Boards*," International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, vol. 12(2), pages 106-141.
    3. Peter J. Baldacchino & Norbert Tabone & Janice Camilleri & Simon Grima, 2020. "An Analysis of the Board of Directors Composition: The Case of Maltese Listed Companies," International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, vol. 10(1), pages 25-44.
    4. Bello Lawal, 2016. "Still on board configuration: SEC recommendations and the efficiency of adhering firms in Nigeria," Journal of Economic and Financial Studies (JEFS), LAR Center Press, vol. 4(2), pages 1-23, April.

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