Research Catalog

Title

Corporate boards : strategies for adding value at the top / Jay A. Conger, Edward E. Lawler, III, David L. Finegold.

Author

Conger, Jay Alden.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

• Lawler, Edward E., III.
• Finegold, David.

Description

xxi, 206 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "In Corporate Boards, the authors explore the roles that corporate governance will play in the twenty-first-century organization and identify the key practices that make a board effective. Questioning the long-held assumption that boards are solely responsible to shareholders, the authors propose that the focus of judging a board's success should move from a shareholder to a stakeholder point of view.
• The authors then go well beyond the issue of board accountability; they examine boards from a group and organizational effectiveness perspective and propose a framework that centers on what really influences effective governance behavior - information, knowledge, power, rewards, and opportunity."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Jossey-Bass business & management series

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass business & management series.

Subjects

• Strategic planning
• Corporate governance
• Boards of directors

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-193) and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. What Should Boards Do? 1. Critical Board Activities. 2. Attributes of High Performance Boards -- Pt. 2. Principles and Practices for Effective Boards. 3. Board Membership. 4. Board Leadership. 5. Information for High Performance Boards. 6. Evaluating the CEO. 7. Evaluating and Rewarding the Board's Performance -- Pt. 3. Boards in the Future. 8. Governing in the Age of the Internet. 9. To Whom Are Boards Accountable? 10. Redesigning the Board: New Governance Forms.

ISBN

0787956201 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00054592

OCLC

• ocm45636859
• SCSB-4131987

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries