The law and popular opinion expect boards of directors will actively monitor their organisations. Further, public … opinion is that boards should have a positive impact on organisational performance. However, the processes of board monitoring … investigating the processual behaviours of boards. The work of four boards1 of micro and small-sized nonprofit organisations were …

In this thesis I investigate how boards of directors strategize, how they manage strategy and how context affects this … literature on the board’s role in strategy, our understanding of how boards address this role, particularly how boards interact … concern, especially from a practitioner perspective, that boards are overly focused on aspects of compliance at the expense of …

This article reports the findings into patterns of governance on nonprofit boards in Australia. The research surveys … 118 boards, upon which serve a total of 1405 directors.The findings indicate that nonprofit boards can mimic some aspects … of a shareholder approach to governance. But nonprofit boards, in the main, indicate priorities and activities of a …

. Implications are spelled out for an instrumental stakeholder theory of the firm. …

stakeholder. This evolution was coupled with the emergence of a corporate boardroom model of management that is consonant with …

stakeholder considerations and strategic conversations during strategy formation with select stakeholders (Moss Kanter, 2002 …; Liedtka 1998a, 1998b; Heracleous, 1998; Christensen, 1997). The first acknowledgements of the approach to consider stakeholder … the strong emphasis on stakeholder considerations in strategic thinking (Ohmae, 1982; Heracleous, 1998; Liedtka 1998a …

facilitated the identification of three core strategy aims, their corresponding actions and actors (stakeholder groups). The …