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Boards of Directors in Disruptive Times: Improving Corporate Governance Effectiveness

Boards of Directors in Disruptive Times: Improving Corporate Governance Effectiveness

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The current business context requires a new framework for understanding how boards of directors can best support their organizations. Professor Jordi Canals presents a new model of effective governance, positioning the board of directors as the steward of the firm's future development and focusing on corporate purpose. Boards should focus on strategy, corporate transformation, CEO and senior management development, the board and the firm's culture, the board as a team, shareholder engagement, and the firm's overall impact. Directors must develop new competencies to be effective.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 03 November 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The current business context of disruptive, accelerated change demands a new framework for understanding how boards of directors can best support their organizations. In this comprehensive book, Professor Jordi Canals presents a groundbreaking model of effective governance, positioning the board of directors as the steward of the firm's future development and emphasizing the concept of corporate purpose. Canals argues that boards of directors should prioritize strategy and corporate transformation, CEO and senior management development and succession, the board and the firm's culture, the board as a team, the engagement of shareholders and critical stakeholders, and the firm's overall impact. Furthermore, for boards to be truly effective, directors must acquire new competencies. Drawing on robust theory and international case studies, this book offers a holistic model of boards of directors, providing a roadmap to effective governance that will enhance companies' reputation and success.

The current business context of disruptive, accelerated change demands a new framework for understanding how boards of directors can best support their organizations.


The current business context of disruptive, accelerated change demands a new framework for understanding how boards of directors can best support their organizations.

Weight: 740g
ISBN-13: 9781009165785

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