Handbook of Top Management Teams

FRANK BOUNOIS is Professor and Scientific Director of the Chair of Corporate Governance at ESCP-EAP, Paris. JÉRÔME DUVAL-HAMEL has a PhD in management and is a Professor of teaching strategy at several universities. SYLVIE ROUSSILLON has a PhD in psychology and is Professor in Leadership and Development at EM, Lyon, France.  JEAN-LOUIS SCARINGELLA has a PhD in Law and is Co-Director General at the Commerce and Industry Chamber, Paris, France.

• INTRODUCTION:A Journey to the heart of top management teams A: Who Are The Top Managers? MANAGEMENT TEAMS 1. Top management teams Donald C. Hambrick 2. Profiles of the Top Executives of CAC 40 Companies Jérôme Baray, Frank Bournois 3. Diversity and Top Management Teams Susan Schneider 4. Performance of Top Management teams: the dynamics of electives affinities Lionel Prud'homme 5. Company cultures and chief executives Maurice Thévenet 6. Managing strategic contradictions Wendy K. Smith, Michael L. Tushman 7. Learning in executive teams and replacing the chief executive Quentin Lefebvre TOP MANAGERS' NETWORKS 8. Company executives a possible new social group Bernard Galambaud 9. The HRM-MD Double act Frank Bournois and Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul 10. The entourage of the Top executive definition and functions Tessa Melkonian and Frank Bournois 11. Strategic human resource Management of Top Management Team Social Networks: controlling executive relationships for enhanced organizational advantage Kevin D. Clark, Christophe J. Collins CAREERS AND MOTIVATIONS OF AN ELITE 12. The internal career orientations of executives Brooklyn C. Derr 13. Career anchors for leaders Edgar H. Schein 14. Career management practices Yehuda Baruch 15. The path of the top executive Muriel Pénicaud 16. Senior executive compensation in France principles and practice Christiane Alcouffe 17. Leaders pay Shaun Tyson 18. The shadow side of leadership Manfred Kets de Vries – Katharina Balazs 19. Top Executives – Stressed and causers of stress Sylvie Roussillon and Jérôme Duval-Hamel 20. Management of health assets: Are Top executives up to it? Frank Bournois and Sylvie Roussillon 21. Stress takes a toll on leaders Sharon McDowell-Larsen 22. Toxic leadership : a conceptual framework Jean Lipman-Blumen B Where do top executive come from? (The origin of top executive) SELECTION OF TOP EXECUTIVE 23. Identifying future managers and developing top potential Sylvie Roussillon and FrankBournois 24. The singular origin of top managers in France Philippe d'Iribarne 25. Background, Identification and training of executives in France and Germany Frédérique Alexandre-Bailly, Marion Festing, Claudia Jonczyk 26. The process of initiation for the future senior executive Maryse Dubouloy 27. Coaching: Learning to be a Top executive Thierry Chavel 28. The leadership journey Leonard D. Schaeffer 29. The role and influence of firm founders Teresa Nelson 30. Company management and institutions: The contribution of neo-institutionalist theories Isabelle Huault TRAINING AND COMPETENCIES 31. Executive education : a process of continuous development Jean-Louis Scaringella 32. The training of Top Executives Hervé Borensztejn 33. Leadership Development evaluation Jennifer W. Martineau / Kelly M. Hannum 34. Accurate evaluations of executive potential Melvin Sorcher, James Brant 35. Unconventional paradigms in Management: when should top management leave the groove towards non-conformity Luciano Traquandi 36. Emotionally intelligent leadership at the top Malcom Higgs, Vic Dulewicz, Chris Brewster C- What are top executives doing? LEADERSHIP 37. The Top executive as reducer of violence Sylvie Roussillon 38. The top Executive Martial art: his strategic approach Daniel Hervouët 39. Human Excellence and Governance: The conficius challenge Sophie Faure, Françoise Tollet 40. Stages of leadership development Alain Gauthier 41. The theory of organisations and the CEO Jacques Rojot 42. Talent management designed for high performance Pierre Miralles 43. Leaders self- defeating response to perceived under performance Jean-François Manzoni / Jean-Louis Barsoux DECISIONS TAKING PROCESS 44. Advice to top executives: keep an eye on technology Victoire de Margerie 45. Is the executive a strategist? Frédéric Fréry 46. Executive and Decisions Hervé Laroche 47. How boards of directors interact as decision making groups Daniel P. Forbes, Frances J. Milliken COMMUNICATION 48.Ambiguous relations the journalist and the corporate executive Pascal Junghans 49. Lessons from the dark side of information use the impact on people, values and company performance Donald A. Marchand 50. The Organizational grapevine: lessons for business leaders Allan J. Kimmel 51. Multilingual top management teams Jane Henderson Kassis 52. Elements of narratology for use by top executive Thierry Boudès 53. A bilingual Encyclopedia The translator's challenge Nicholas Lorriman 54. Organisational transformation: moves and rhythms Patrick Besson 55. Facilitating strategic renewal by managing strategic role conflict Steven W. Floyd, Peter J. Lane 56. Developing an entrepreneurial dynamic within large businesses Olivier Basso 57. RSVP: A methodology to ensure the success of organisational transformation projects Stephan Franz Gellrich 58. Top Management and labour relations Jérôme Duval-Hamel CRISIS MANAGEMENT 59. Chief Executives and crisis management Patrick O'Quin 60. The Director in crisis situations Christophe Roux-Dufort 61. The influence of governance characteristics on the strategic response to a failed takeover bid Sayan Chatterjee, Jeffrey S. Harrison, Donald D. Bergh TIME MANAGEMENT 62. Everyday management of top executives priorities Carole Druckers-Godard 63. Timing and innovation explicit trade offs Delphine Manceau 64. The three time frames in corporate organisation and management Michelle Bergadaa FINANCE 65. Planning and budgeting: A new approach for senior management Olivier Saulpic 66. Accrued compensation Human Resources Manager, Financial Manager and Actuaries: fighting on the same side Pierre Laversanne, Claude Rouleau 67. Bounded rationality, sunk costs and industry structure David G. Hoopes, Douglas R. Johnson D- Context In Which They Evolve? INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY 68. Top managers and internationalization decisions Stefan Schmid 69. The role of cultural distance and corporate governance in the decision to expand internationallyFabrice Roth CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 70. Corporate Governance Pierre-Yves Gomez 71. The agency theory, CEO entrenchment and corporate governance theories Alain Finet 72. Mapping the corporate governance lanscape Andrew Kakabadse, Nada K. Kakabadse 73. The international convergence of systems of corporate governance Jérôme Caby SPECIFIC TYPES OF GOVERNANCE 74. Mitbestimmung in the German corporate governance system Stefan Schmid 75. Corporate governance in Russia : a state of the art Anatoly Zhuplev, Frédéric Jallat 76. Governance of family businesses Gérard Hirigoyen 77. Top management strata and governance in professional services firm:structural and agency challenges Kevin D. Clark, Jonathan P. Doh, Stephen A. Stumpf 78. The overall management of French state owned companies in question Franck Brillet, Gilles de la Ménardière RELATIONSHIP WITH SHAREHOLDERS 79. Internationalisation of the shareholding of large companies impact on the function of top executives Franck Bancel 80. Executive replacement and shareholder wealth a review of the theoretical litterature Isabelle Dherment-Ferère 81. A user's guide for interpreting the presidential letter to shareholders Sebastien Point 82. Increasing firm value through detection and prevention of white collar crime Karen Schnatterly 83. Ethicists, corporate responsibility and executive action Yves Medina 84. Ethics, cynicism and governance Jacques Delga, Gilles Van Wijk 85. For a managerial ethic Dom Hugues Minguet