Morten Huse is Professor of Organization and Management, Norwegian School of Management BI.

• Part 1. Introduction: The Value Creating Board and Behavioural Perspectives1. The Value Creating Board and Behavioural Perspectives Morten Huse2. Context, Behaviour and Evolution: Challenges in Research on Boards and Governance Jonas Gabrielsson and Morten Huse3. Accountability and Creating Accountability: A Framework for Exploring Behavioural Perspectives of Corporate Governance Morten HusePart 2. Exploring Issues and Theories: The Classics – Developing a Field4. Building Blocks in Understanding Behavioural Perspectives on Boards: Developing a Research Stream Morten Huse5. The President and the Board of Directors Miles L Mace6. The Separation of Ownership and Control Eugene Fama and Michael Jensen7. Boards of Directors and Corporate Financial Performance: A Review and Research Agenda Shaker Zahra and John A Pearce8. On Studying Managerial Elites Andrew Pettigrew9. Cognition and Corporate Governance: Understanding Boards of Directors as Strategic Decision-Making Groups Daniel Forbes and Frances MillikenPart 3. Exploring Methods and Concepts10. Exploring Methods and Concepts in Studies of Boards Processes Morten Huse11. Relational Norms as a Supplement to Neo-classical Understanding of Directorates Morten Huse 12. Stakeholder Management and the Avoidance of Corporate Control Morten Huse and Dorthe Eide13. Researching the Dynamics of Board – Stakeholder Relations Morten Huse14. Stakeholders’ Expectations of Board Roles: The Case of Subsidiary Boards Morten Huse and Violina Rindova15. Corporate Boards as Assets for Operating in the New Europe: The Value of Process-oriented Boardroom Dynamics Morten Huse, Alessandro Minichilli and Margrethe Schøning16. Gender Related Boardroom Dynamics Morten Huse and Anne Grethe SolbergPart 4. Exploring Relationships: Results from ‘The Value Creating Board’ Surveys17. The ‘Value Creating Board’-Surveys: A Benchmark Morten Huse18. What Makes Boards in Small Firms Active? Mattias Nordqvist and Alessandro Minichilli19. How Actual Board Task Performance Influences Value Creating Boards in Dutch SMEs Jeroen van den Heuvel and Anita van Gils20. The Board’s Control Tasks in Family Firms: Theoretical Perspectives and Exploratory Evidence Yannick Bammens and Wim Voordeckers21. Board Activity in Large Italian Companies: A Behavioural Perspective Alessandro Minichilli, Alessandro Zattoni and Fabio Zona22. Women Directors, Board Working Style and Board Task Performance Sabina Nielsen23. Board Task Performance in Small Firms: The Role of Incentives and Board Processes Luca Gnan and Alessandro Zattoni24. Trust and Board Task Performance Hans van Ees, Gerwin van der Laan and Theo Postma25. Consequences of Board Power Pingying Zhang Wenstøp26. Boards of Directors and Firm Innovation: An Empirical Analysis on Large Italian Companies Fabio Zona, Alessandro Minichilli and Alessandro Zattoni27. Board Control and Innovation: An Empirical Study of Small Technology Based Firms Jonas Gabrielsson and Diamanto PolitisPart 5. The Value Creating Board: Implications for Practice 28. How Boards Contribute to Value Creation Morten Huse, Jonas Gabrielsson and Alessandro Minichilli

"This is a great book based of Professor Huse’s excellent studies of boards and governance during the last 20 years. It is comprehensive, well-written and full of useful insights into actual board behavior. The Value Creating Board: Corporate Governance and Organizational Behaviour should be on the bookshelf of every serious student of boards of directors and corporate governance." Jonas Gabrielsson, Lund University, Sweden"This is a comprehensive and authoritative collection of papers on corporate governance and boards. Morten Huse brings together the classics and the most recent, cutting-edge research in a well-organised and accessible manner. A 'must have' for any scholar working in corporate governance, strategic management and organisational behaviour." Silke Machold, University of Wolverhampton Business School, UK