Boards at Work: How Directors View their Roles and Responsibilities

by Philip Stiles, Bernard Taylor

Overview

The first detailed analysis of the internal working and the external relationships of the boards of Britain's leading companies. Responding to calls for greater scrutiny of Boards of Directors, this book presents an in-depth examination of directors of UK organizations, drawing on the accounts of directors themselves as to their roles, influence, and the potential and limits to their power, finding boards to be important mechanisms in maintaining the strategic framework of the organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199258161
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/02/2003
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Philip Stiles is a Lecturer and Senior Research Associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is a member of the Centre for Corporate Leadership and Accountability at Cambridge and is researching into a number of areas including board dynamics, the Chief Executive succession process, and the relationship between both institutional and private investors and the organization. Bernard Taylor is Executive Director of the Centre for Board Effectiveness and Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management at Henley Management College. He is Director of the European Council on Corporate Strategy and Senior Adviser to the European Council on Corporate Governance and Direction for the Conference Board Europe.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Abbreviations
1. The Changing Expectations of Boards of Directors
2. Perspectives on the Contribution of Boards of Directors
3. Researching Boards of Directors
4. The Strategic Role of the Board
5. The Control Role of the Board
6. The Institutional Role of the Board
7. The Dynamics of Board Process
8. Conclusions
Appendices
References
Index