Boardroom priorities for new CEOs -- Strategy -- the first big test with your board -- Board committees -- and how to work with them -- Transforming your board -- CEO succession -- the most important decision your board will make -- Sitting on another company's board -- As you move forward

This study examines an important relationship between CEO duality and corporate governance. There are several aspects and dimensions of corporate governance, which may influence a CEO Duality but this study focused on two aspects namely Board’s size (Bsize) and Board’s Independence (Bind)....

The objectives of enterprises, their internal organization and the environment in which they operate evolve permanently; thus, the risks they are exposed to permanently change, influencing performance and even putting their existence in danger. Therefore, corporate governance may sometimes refer...

In recent years, numerous studies have investigated whether individual executives and their characteristics relate to financial reporting choices. In this article, we review archival, experimental and survey research on the influence of individual executives on corporate financial reporting and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the changing role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and illustrate how it now resonates with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) role, especially in the public sector. Design/methodology/approach – This paper identifies where and how this...

A vast labour literature has found evidence of a 'glass ceiling', whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the...

Purpose This paper aims to determine possible differences in causes or characteristics between men and women in attaining the CEO position in large publicly listed companies in the USA. Design/methodology/approach T -test statistic, correlation analyses and logit model were used to determine the...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the degree of stakeholder salience and the degree of emphasis placed on accountability dimensions for infrastructure assets (IFAs) as perceived by mayors and chief executive officers (CEOs) of local government...