Corporate governance has emerged in the last decade mainly due to a number of corporate failures and scandals that have drawn the global attention. Furthermore, the current financial crisis has highlighted issues of CG in a widest sense and the corporate governance codes and recommendations are...

This study examines how organisational demography (organizational age, organisational size and number of years listed in the Athens Stock Exchange, ATHEX), impacts board structure (board size, CEO duality and CEO dependence/independence). Data was collected from the annual reports of 140...

An optimum composition of the board of directors is often considered as an effective approach for achieving robust corporate governance. Broadly, the board of directors exercises four critical roles: “advice and counsel, channels of information flow, preferential access to resources, and...

The paper first discusses the board roles as found in the existing literature and identifies the different terms that have been constantly used, to describe similar activities. By examining the roles under agency and resource dependence theories - two of the most dominant theoretical...

Board size is recognized as one of the most important elements of any board. Before providing some facts about the different board sizes as they appear in the literature, it is worth starting with a generally accepted conclusion. Based on latest studies and some new trends, it can be argued that...

Numerous articles in academic publications as well as practitioner-oriented journals have emphasized the importance of strategic planning, not only for large firms but for small businesses as well. However, research findings regarding planning come principally from industrialized countries...

Purpose: This paper investigates the nature and extent of use of strategic planning in the Greek hospitality industry and outcomes of planning based on Greek managers' views.Design/Methodology/Approach: Although the concept of strategic planning and its dimensions have been widely discussed in...

Purpose: Simulations nowadays are being used in various disciplines, in an attempt to bring various business aspects from the real world in classroom (Faria, 1990; Faria and Wellington, 2004); business faculty recognize that simulation adds value in learning process (Zantow et al., 2005). When this...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the external factors that influence the profitability of a typical Greek systemic bank over the period 2001-2014. Design/Methodology/Approach: A conceptual framework incorporating two fundamental groups of constructs, namely, macroeconomic...