Call for papers
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TRACK 16: Behavioral Perspectives on Corporate Governance
Deadline: 17 January 2011, 2pm <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Brussels</st1:place></st1:city> time
Dear colleague,
We hereby invite you to submit your papers to:
TRACK 16: Behavioral Perspectives on Corporate Governance: Boards of Directors, Top Management Teams, and Worker Involvement.
Over the last decades, the role of boards of directors and their influence on firm behavior and firm outcome have been topic of debate. While scholars have generally acknowledged the importance of board control and board servicing and strategizing, there still exists theoretical and empirical disagreement about what boards actually do and how they fulfill their duties and tasks in various contexts.
Accordingly, a growing body of research highlights (i) the need to move beyond the 'usual suspects' and visible features of boards of directors and examine, instead, board behavior, dynamics and processes; (ii) the need to look at other governance mechanisms that may substitute for board involvement or complement it; and (iii) the need to study a board's behavior in its institutional context.
This track seeks to contribute to this stream of research by inviting papers that examine boards of directors and their relationships with the firm from a behavioral perspective, i.e., studies exploring the antecedents and consequences of board (non)involvement as well as analyzing boardroom dynamics, processes and structures. We encourage submission of papers analyzing board behavior through surveys, interviews and case studies and we especially welcome papers that seek a holistic solution to governance problems. Multidisciplinary approaches and papers that deploy multiple research methods seem apt to deal with the plurality of these themes.
Appropriate topics include, but are not limited, to:
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. What is the influence of other primary stakeholders, such as employees, on the functioning of boards? What is an effective mix of governance mechanisms?
Keywords: Boards of Directors; Top Management Team; Worker Participation
Track Chairs:
Gerwin van der Laan, University of Antwerp & Utrecht University
Annette van de Berg, University of Antwerp & Utrecht University
Ann Jorissen, University of Antwerp
Olivier Van der Brempt, University of Antwerp
Hans van Ees, University of Groningen
Organisational Coordinator:
Gerwin van der Laan, postdoc research fellow, <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Antwerp</st1:placename>, gerwin.vanderlaan@ua.ac.be, phone: 0032 3 265 5012 & assistant professor of institutional economics, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Utrecht</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on"> University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, phone: 0031 30 253 9640.
Please consult the conference website www.euram2012.nl for author submission instructions.