Corporate governance has emerged in the last decade mainly due to a number of corporate failures and scandals that have drawn the global attention. Furthermore, the current financial crisis has highlighted issues of CG in a widest sense and the corporate governance codes and recommendations are...

This study examines how organisational demography (organizational age, organisational size and number of years listed in the Athens Stock Exchange, ATHEX), impacts board structure (board size, CEO duality and CEO dependence/independence). Data was collected from the annual reports of 140...

Purpose: This study examines how organisational demography (organizational age, organisational size and number of years listed in the Athens Stock Exchange, ATHEX), may impact the board structure (board size, CEO duality and CEO dependence/independence). Design/Methodology/approach: The...

An optimum composition of the board of directors is often considered as an effective approach for achieving robust corporate governance. Broadly, the board of directors exercises four critical roles: “advice and counsel, channels of information flow, preferential access to resources, and...

The paper first discusses the board roles as found in the existing literature and identifies the different terms that have been constantly used, to describe similar activities. By examining the roles under agency and resource dependence theories - two of the most dominant theoretical...

Board size is recognized as one of the most important elements of any board. Before providing some facts about the different board sizes as they appear in the literature, it is worth starting with a generally accepted conclusion. Based on latest studies and some new trends, it can be argued that...