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performance, and the power of women directors interact to influence the amount of strategic change. Results support a three …-way interaction, indicating that when the board is not experiencing a threat due to low firm performance and women directors have high … the board is threatened by low firm performance and women directors have high power, the relationship between board gender …

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the world-wide discussion on the role of boards of directors in the … of the board, playing a more active role in the strategic decision-making process. Active boards of directors increase … knowledgeable boards are an important factor in preventing crisis situations, e.g. by forcing managers to fully account for their …

equilibrium behavior. More importantly, we show that managers can strategically appoint independent outside directors to influence …) managers may not always appoint the least (most) able directors to the board. We also examine whether CEOs would prefer a … choosing directors. We offer a theoretical framework to examine how CEOs can strategically choose director characteristics …