Research Handbook on Boards of Directors

Edited by Jonas Gabrielsson, Professor of Business Administration, School of Business, Innovation and Sustainability, Halmstad University, Sweden, Wafa Khlif, Department of Management Control, Accounting and Auditing, TBS Business School, Barcelona, Spain and Sibel Yamak, formerly Professor of Management, Wolverhampton Business School, University of Wolverhampton, UK

• Contents:Introduction1. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”? A call for more context sensitive research on boards of directorsJonas Gabrielsson, Wafa Khlif and Sibel YamakPart I The insideBoard behaviour and performance2. Board informal hierarchy and board performanceDennis B. Veltrop and Eric Molleman3. Dealing with strategic tensions on the board: The role of the chair in fostering engagement and debate Filipe Morais, Andrew Kakabadse and Nada K. Kakabadse4. The determinants of trust in the boardroomMichael A. Ogunseyin, Stuart S. Farquhar and Silke Machold5. Narcissism: A covert threat to functional board dynamicsJoanna Pousset6. Opening the black box of boards of directors: Taking stock of recent studies on board dynamicsAlessandro Zattoni and Amedeo PuglieseBoards in family firms7. Family directors monitoring non-family managers: The impact of family representation in the board of directors on CEO replacement decisions after poor performanceDaniel Pittino and Francesca Visintin8. Analysing the board of directors in family firms: An integrated framework for future research directionsAlessandro Cirillo and Donata MussolinoPart II The outsideRe-visiting the concept of independence 9. Independent directors: Experience and value in contrasting economic contextsPhilippa Wells, Abdul Moyeen and Coral Ingley10. The management of independent directors: A praxis hypothesisSven-Olof Yrjö Collin and Elin SmithInterconnections and impacts11. Board of Directors: Building Relationships with Non-Shareholder StakeholdersMonique Cikaliuk, Ljiljana Eraković, Brad Jackson, Chris Noonan and Susan Watson 12. The changing role of the chairperson of the board: An analysis of business press articles in UK, USA and GermanyAlexander Meineke, Karin Hellerstedt and Mattias Nordqvist13. Multiple board memberships and the inner circle in family business groupsBehlül Üsdiken and Özlem Yildirim-Öktem14. The effect of the introduction of the gender quota regulation among public limited companies’ boards in Norway: Taking stock, looking aheadEskil Sønju Le Bruyn Goldeng, Alessandra Rigolini and Patricia GabaldonPart III The environmentsNational contexts15. Governance research and practice in the 21st century: Taking stock of board reforms Marta A. Geletkanycz and Brian K. Boyd16. Institutions, governance, and strategy in a changing global landscape: The case of boards of directors in large listed firms in FranceNikolaos Kavadis and Xavier Castañer17. Board of directors within African contexts: Current perspectives and key directions for future researchKonan Anderson Seny Kan18. Roles and tasks of German supervisory boards: An exploratory viewThomas Steger and Steffen JahnGlobal trends19. Corporate governance and climate change: The new zeitgeist of sustainability for boards of directorsThomas Clarke20. Digitalisation and the role of the boardLinda Baines, Vadim Grinevich and Mine Karatas-Ozkan21. On value and value creation: Perspectives from board research and practice in SMEsDaniel Yar Hamidi22. Rethinking boards and governance in the digital era: Implications for practice and researchAlessandra Rigolini, Jonas Gabrielsson, Mirian Izquierdo Barriuso and Morten HuseIndex

‘The book is a reference point for international corporate governance scholars. In particular, the heterogeneity of the topics represents a key strength of the book, especially for young researchers.’