Enhancing Board Effectiveness

Book description

Enhancing Board Effectiveness seeks to examine the conceptualization and role of the board in a variety of contexts and articulate solutions for improving the effectiveness of the board.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. 1 Introduction: Enhancing Board Effectiveness: Institutional, Regulatory, and Functional Perspectives for Developing and Emerging Markets
  9. PART I Board of Directors, Effectiveness, and Corporate Governance
    1. 2 Principles of Corporate Governance and Effective Boards
    2. 3 Codes for Boards of Directors: A Law and Morality and Organisational Differences Perspective
    3. 4 The Nature of Boards in Developing and Emerging Markets
    4. 5 Corporate Governance and Business Growth: Evidence From China
    5. 6 Board Effectiveness: Do Committees Really Matter? Evidence From Turkey
    6. 7 Individualism in Boards or Directors: Why Good Board Members Make Bad Decisions
    7. 8 Tone at the Top, Organizational Culture and Board Effectiveness
  10. PART II Institutions, Regulations, and Corporate Governance
    1. 9 Institutions and Board Effectiveness: Any Link? The United Kingdom, United States and Nigeria in Perspective
    2. 10 Club Theory and Directors’ Performance Evaluation
    3. 11 Corporate Governance Codes for Public Sector, Private Sector and Not-for-Profit Boards: Varied Rules and Structure or One Size Fits All
    4. 12 Reporting by the Companies: Development and Challenges
    5. 13 Director’s Selection, On-Boarding and Disqualification Process
    6. 14 Directors’ Duties and Accountability, Personal Liability and Lifting the Veil of Incorporation
    7. 15 Money Laundering, Tax Havens and Transparency: Any Role for the Board of Directors of Banks?
    8. 16 The Journey to Board Effectiveness: The Case of Indonesia
  11. PART III Issues in Improving the Functional Effectiveness of the Board
    1. 17 Board Roles in Business Groups and Multinational Enterprises in Emerging Markets
    2. 18 The Board in the Financial and Social Performance of Firms
    3. 19 Director Remuneration in Developing and Emerging Markets (DEMs): Issues, Challenges and Prospects
    4. 20 Board Composition and Diversity in Developing and Emerging Markets
    5. 21 Shareholders and Institutional Investment
    6. 22 Board Effectiveness and Regulation: Explaining the Deficit
    7. 23 Effective Boards in Developing and Emerging Markets: Looking Ahead
  12. List of Contributors
  13. Index

Product information

  • Title: Enhancing Board Effectiveness
  • Author(s): Franklin N. Ngwu, Onyeka Osuji, Chris Ogbechie, David Williamson
  • Release date: March 2019
  • Publisher(s): Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781351689052