Interlocking directorship is often described as the practice of members a corporate board directors serving on boards multiple corporations simultaneously. In Philippines, previous studies have shown that all served top 100 corporations, only 15 percent are women. On average, women comprise 13 individual companies. Hence, this study examines interlocks within Philippine Government Financial Ins...

We consider the politics of structural choice to examine how American states govern the teaching profession. Since the 1970s, nearly all states have adopted professional standards boards to regulate the licensing and certification of public school teachers. These boards vary in their composition, powers, and relationship to other government institutions. Some boards possess much autonomy and au...

A physician’s role in health care should be to promote affordable quality care for the patient. The importance of this role was exemplified in the final Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation that repealed the requirement for local hospital boards but – to help offset concerns regarding "the importance of physician input at the governing body level" – inserted a requirement...

OBJECTIVES Hospital boards are legally responsible for safe healthcare. They need tools to assist them in their task of governing patient safety. Almost every Dutch hospital performs internal audits, but the effectiveness of these audits for hospital governance has never been evaluated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the organisation of internal audits and their effectiveness for hospital...

Although hospital governing boards can have a significant influence over setting priorities and stretch goals and can emphasize an agenda for improving quality and safety, relatively little is known about trustees’ actual level of engagement in quality-related issues. A survey of 1,000 board chairs revealed that less than half of the boards rated quality of care as a top priority, a minority of...

Gender equality in leadership positions is important for sport organizations to achieve economic and social sustainability. Based on a multi-level framework, this study examines spillover effects from state-level factors organizations’ environment critical masses of women their boards (in terms share numbers) board gender diversity (reflected by different types boards). Data national regional g...