Get academics into the boardroom

An investigation into the blogging practices of academics and researchers

11 Chapter 1: Introduction 13 1.1. Motivations for investigating blogs in academia and research 15 1.2. Methods and findings of this research project 20 1.3. The dissertation outline 23 Chapter 2: A review of blogging and blogging practices in higher education 27 2.

Gender Diversity in the Boardroom

This paper documents several significant correlations between the variability of stock returns, the structure of director compensation and the gender diversity of corporate boards. In a crosssectional sample of boards of directors of 1024 publicly traded firms in fiscal year 1998, we find three robust results: (1) firms facing more variability in their stock returns have fewer women on their bo...

The Levers of Control in the Boardroom

Purpose: The paper challenges agency and stewardship theories’ straw person conceptions of human behaviour and discusses how the board of directors can use accounting and control systems to effectively moderate a realistic model of the CEO’s behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses a pragmatic approach in reconciling agency and stewardship theory. Findings: As well as a framework ...

Bringing the bedside to the boardroom, and the boardroom to the bedside.

Battle in the Boardroom : A Discursive Perspective

This article examines the centrality of storytelling in achieving managerially relevant outcomes, with a focus on the in-situ performance context of corporate storytellers influencing one another. The Ricœurian concept of speech act, capturing both the intentionality of organisational discourse and the social context of its production and reception, implicitly guided our research effort. The ar...