Ranking Boards of Directors

Reciprocally Interlocking Boards of Directors and Executive Compensation

Is executive compensation influenced by the composition of the board of directors? About 8% of chief executive officers (CEOs) are reciprocally interlocked with another CEO—the current CEO of firm A serves as a director of firm B and the current CEO of firm B serves as a director of firm A. Roughly 20% of firms have at least one current or retired employee sitting on the board of another firm a...

Statistics for Ranking Program Committees and Editorial Boards

Ranking groups of researchers is important in several contexts and can serve many purposes such as the fair distribution of grants based on the scientist’s publication output, concession of research projects, classification of journal editorial boards and many other applications in a social context. In this paper, we propose a method for measuring the performance of groups of researchers. The p...

Toward an Integrative Theory of Boards of Directors: the Intellectual Capital of the Board

The Role and Impact of Chairs of Nonprofit Organization Boards of Directors: an Exploratory Study

Most research on nonprofit boards has tended to focus on the board as a whole and its role vis a vis the organization’s management. Comparatively little empirical attention has been paid to the role and impact of board chairs. This paper reports on a pilot study exploring the differences between highly effective and highly ineffective chairs as perceived by experienced Executive Directors and b...

Racial diversity and performance 1 Racial Diversity and Performance of Nonprofit Boards of Directors

Increasingly nonprofit boards of directors are becoming more racially diverse or face pressures to increase their diversity. This research used survey data from 121 executive directors in nonprofit organizations in two metropolitan areas to investigate the affect of board member diversity, attitudes, and recruitment practices on board performance. Analysis revealed that boards with a higher per...