Boards at Work
how directors view their roles and responsibilities
$228.80
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2001
Summary
Boards of directors are coming under increasing scrutiny in terms of their contribution in monitoring and controlling management, particularly in the wake of high-profile corporate frauds and failures, and also their potential to add value to organizational performance through involvement in the strategy process and through building relationships with key investors. Despite the importance of these issues, not only to organizations but also arguably to nationalcompetitiveness, the nature of bo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198288763 |
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| ISBN-10: | 019828876X |
| Author: | Philip Stiles, Bernard Taylor |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2001 |
| Weight: | 467g |
| Dimensions: | 243mm x 164mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
`This book is comprehensive and a must read for those who wish to be up to date and are committed to improving board performance … The conclusion section provides useful advice for board members who want to check how well they are doing against current thinking … Stiles and Taylor have shown remarkable ability to deal with the complexities of boards at work.‘Lynn McGregor”…this is not another normative text on what directors and boards should be doing. Rather it is a valuable study for those who study corporate goverance…” Bob Tricker 01/02
About The Author
Philip Stiles
Philip Stiles is Senior Research Associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is executive editor of ‘Long Range Planning’. Bernard Taylor is Professor of Business Policy at Henley Management College and Head of the Faculty Group in Strategy and International Business. He is the founder and editor of the journal ‘Long Range Planning’, and founding editor of the ‘Journal of General Management’. Director of the European Councilon Corporate Strategy, he is also the author of fifteen books on strategy and management developments. He has lectured widely both in Britain and internationally.
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