boards and commttees

Independent Boards and Innovation∗

Much research has suggested that independent boards of directors are more effective in reducing agency costs and improving firm governance. How they influence innovation is less clear. Relying on regulatory changes, we show that firms that transition to independent boards focus on more crowded and familiar areas of technology. They patent and claimmore and receive more total future citations to...

boards and committees

boards and committees

Consensus, Control and Corporate Boards∗

We investigate properties of shareholder-value maximizing corporate boards in situations where both the management and the board have expertise (or private information) relevant for the decision facing the corporation. We suppose that the board cannot directly monitor management in a way that eliminates distortions arising out of managerial agency. This creates a trade-off between improving inf...

Indigenous Medicine and District Boards

or issue bogus certificates; hence their unpopularity. Medicine has always been a State subject in India since time immemorial, and it is difficult to understand the present-day policy of multiplying medical schools and institutions, without finding employment for the host of graduates turned out. and?at the same time?indirectly helping quacks through the agency of district boards and municipal...

Editorial Boards , Publishing Council

s, Mathematical Reviews, MatSciNet, MatSci on SilverPlatter, Scopus, Zentralblatt Math The issuing of the Informatica journal is financially supported by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Trg OF 13, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Volume 31 Number 2 June 2007ISSN 0350-5596 IntroductionM. McPherson,P. Isaias139 Intelligent Decision Support for Architecture and<l...