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Effective Boards of Directors: An Overview
Alkhafaji, Abbass F. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 90 (1990) 4, pp. 18-26
organisation of the board depends on its goals and objectives; each will require a different format. However, the use of committees …
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Health service staff attitudes to community representatives on committees
Nathan, Sally; Harris, Elizabeth; Kemp, Lynn; … - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 20 (2006) 6, pp. 551-559
Purpose – This paper sets out to report attitudes of staff on key health service committees towards community …‐completed questionnaire administered to staff on committees as a baseline measure and 12 months after community representatives had been … were clear about the role of community representatives and how to work with them on committees. Significantly more staff at …
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Is the risk management committee only a procedural compliance?
Ng, Tuan‐Hock; Chong, Lee‐Lee; Ismail, Hishamuddin - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 14 (2012) 1, pp. 71-86
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationships between risk management committee characteristics and risk taking of the Malaysia's insurance companies, from 2003‐2011. The paper aims to examine three identified characteristics of a risk management committee, namely,...
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Buying committees in the Chinese retail industry
Sternquist, Brenda; Wang, Lu - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 22 (2010) 4, pp. 492-511
Purpose – Retailers act as assemblers of merchandise, selecting goods from among a wide range of available products in order to enhance customer value and loyalty. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the Chinese retail buying system, focusing on the buying committee, which is defined...
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The development of governance structures for corporate responsibility
Spitzeck, Heiko - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 9 (2009) 4, pp. 495-505
developed over time are now increasingly making use of corporate responsibility committees. In 2002 about 15 percent of the …
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An assessment of the newly defined internal audit function
Nagy, Albert L.; Cenker, William J. - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 17 (2002) 3, pp. 130-137
The new definition of internal auditing defines the function as an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations. The purpose of this paper is to summarize an assessment of this new definition obtained through structured...
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Beyond the unidimensional collective leadership model
Mendez, Maria J; Howell, Jon P.; Bishop, James W. - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 36 (2015) 6, pp. 675-696
effectiveness is further tested. Design/methodology/approach – A social networks methodology is used with a sample of 28 committees … lower than recommended. Finally, results cannot be extrapolated beyond committees, which have very unique characteristics …
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Do Federal Reserve Policy Surprises Reveal Superior Information about the Economy?
Faust, Jon; Swanson, Eric T; Wright, Jonathan H - In: Contributions in Macroeconomics 4 (2004) 1
Abstract A number of recent papers have hypothesized that the Federal Reserve possesses information about the course of inflation and output that is unknown to the private sector, and that policy actions by the Federal Reserve convey some of this superior information. We conduct two tests of...
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A Sequential Signaling Model of the Sale of an Invention to an Oligopolist
King, John T - In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 4 (2004) 1
I consider the problem of an independent inventor attempting to sell a cost-reducing innovation in an oligopoly setting. There are N potential buyers and the inventor possesses private information regarding the value of the invention. A revealing equilibrium is characterized in which the...
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Nonrevealing Equilibria and Consumption-Based Asset Pricing Models
Gunderson, James E - In: Topics in Theoretical Economics 6 (2006) 1
In the rational expectations equilibrium of this paper, agents have private information and differing information partitions and therefore assign differing conditional distributions to asset payoffs and other economic variables relevant to their investment choices. Standard asset pricing models...
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