Abstract Processes produce changes: rivers erode their banks and thunderstorms cause floods. If I am right that organisms are a kind of process, then the causally efficacious behaviours also examples processes producing change. In this paper shall try to articulate view how we should think causation within broadly processual ontology living world. Specifically, argue causation, at least in cent...

Shareholder valuations are economically and statistically positively correlated with independent director power, gauged by a composite of social network power centrality measures. Powerful directors’ sudden deaths reduce shareholder value significantly; other do not, consistent powerful directors increasing firm valuations. Further tests associate more less value-destroying mergers acquisitions...