This paper draws on the top 100 firms in Australia, sampled every three years from 1990 through to 2008, to analyse the impact of busy directors on large Australian companies. Information on directors, CEO and Chairperson along with shareholder information is hand collected from the annual...

In a study of the outside directorships held by CEOs in large Australian companies we find that CEO outside directorships are a function of CEO power and the level of outside directorships held by other members of the board. They are also increasing in CEO relative tenure, CEO duality and board...