The current model in corporate governance theory is predicated on management by CEO and a team of executives, with directors in charge of oversight and monitoring. Corporate law endorses this model by authorizing directors to supervise management, rather than manage corporations by themselves....

New Zealand has the reputation as a pioneering nation in policy reform- it was the first to introduce a comprehensive no fault based system for accident compensation, it had an early form of the welfare state, it embraced the economic reforms of the 1980s, and it was the first country to allow...

Can shareholders of a company override a management decision made by the board? The answer, at least since Automatic Self-Cleansing v Cuninghame [1906] 2 Ch 34 (CA) in 1906 has been an unequivocal no. In fact, as implied by Cozens-Hardy LJ in Cuninghame, the answer has been no since the statutes...

This chapter explores the experiences of a group of New Zealand-based organizations from a range of industries and sectors in responding to the challenges wrought by COVID-19. Focusing on the board of directors, we relate the lived experiences of CEOs, board chairs and directors in handling the...

In this case study we address the issue of CEO succession drawing directly on the experience of the board of directors of Air New Zealand. Despite extensive literature on CEO-board relations, there has been a scarce number of studies on managing the processes of CEO succession and appointment...

One of the major characteristics of the corporate form is and always has been the separation of ownership (in shareholders) from control (in boards of directors). The default position in most jurisdictions is that the statute gives powers to the board of directors but the position remains less...