Dear friends and colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit your paper to the track on "Boards of Directors: Behavioral Perspectives on Corporate Governance" at the next EURAM conference (Valencia 2014 - June, 4th-7th).
Topic description:
Over the last decades, the role of boards of directors and their influence on firm behavior and firm outcome have been topic of debate. Research is moving to an approach that centers on what directors and boards actually do. Accordingly, a growing body of research highlights the need to (i) examine board behavior, dynamics and processes; (ii) look at other governance mechanisms that may substitute for board involvement or complement it; and (iii) study a board's behavior in its institutional context. We invite papers which examine boards of directors and their relationships with other governance institutions.
Appropriate research questions include, but are certainly 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?
Key dates:
Papers submission deadline: January 16th, 2014 (2:00 p.m. Brussels time)
Acceptance notification to authors: from March 28th, 2014
EURAM Conference: June 4th-7th, 2014
For more information on the conference, please visit the official website
of the conference:http://www.euram2014.org/
If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Track co-chairs:
Gerwin van der Laan, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (coordinator),
g.vdrlaan@tilburguniversity.edu
Jonas Gabrielsson, Lund University, Sweden
Hans van Ees, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Saraï Sapulete, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Dr. Gerwin van der Laan
Department of Organization and Strategy
Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Room K1102a
Phone (+31)(0)13 466 8767
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=g.vdrlaan