A field research, commissioned by the Dutch Foundation for Management Studies, on the state of the application of the concept of business unit-organization (M-form) in the Netherlands, has produced some noteworthy results. Through interviews with 36 organizations, most for-profit companies...

Increasingly executives and non-executives start to grumble about a governance system that forces them to spend all their time on compliance, risk management and proper reporting. In fact, the real task of a governance system is to foster growth. Good corporate governance contributes to growth...