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CALL FOR PAPERS
European Academy of Management Conference
ST_02-03: Board Effectiveness
SIG: Corporate Governance
17-20 June, Warsaw (Poland)
We take pleasure in inviting BPS scholars to submit a manuscript to our standing track 'Board Effectiveness' at the European Academy of Management. With this track we build on nine 'Behavioral Perspectives on Corporate Governance' tracks at EURAM. Colleagues who have submitted to our track in the past, are welcome to again join the discussions on decision-making in boards of directors, board functioning in their varied organizational contexts and implications of (in)effective boards for organizational outcomes. Moreover, we want to invite those who have not yet made use of the opportunity to submit: dear colleagues, do not withhold yourself the pleasure of challenging discussions over your board work! Please read the track description below, and feel free to get in touch in case of questions.
ORGANISERS
Gerwin van der Laan, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (g.vdrlaan@tilburguniversity.edu)
Jonas Gabrielsson,
Hans van Ees, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Saraï Sapulete, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
DESCRIPTION
Over the last decades, the role of boards of directors and their influence on firm behaviour and firm outcome have been topics of debate. Research into board effectiveness may now be categorized under three streams: (1) economics/law approaches to board effectiveness, focusing on structures and incentives; (2) sociology/actual board behaviour approaches, focusing on board processes; and (3) social psychology approaches, focusing on cognition. Research spans a wide variety of units of analysis (firm, team, director) as well as methodologies (survey, archival, observational). Indeed, for the purpose of this topic, the effectiveness of boards is an important and growing research stream.
Appropriate topics include, but are not limited, to:
· How do board of directors function? How do the processes and dynamics affect firm performance?
· What determines the balance of board tasks under various conditions? Are boards variously active under different ownership structures, or in different countries, and why is this?
· What do boards actually do? What is their real contribution? How and when are boards of directors or board members involved in their control, service and strategic roles? How do they combine the seemingly conflicting demands posed by these roles?
· What is the influence of director background on the functioning of boards? What is an effective mix of governance mechanisms?
· How does individual actor behavior aggregate to the functioning of the board as a whole?
CONVINCED?
For more information on submission guidelines and practicalities, please visit the conference website www.euram2015.org
We hope to see you in Warsaw!
Best regards,
Gerwin
Dr. Gerwin van der Laan
Department of Management
Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Room K1102a
Phone (+31)(0)13 466 8767
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=g.vdrlaan