Corporate Governance: Volume 2 Issue 2

Corporate governance and corporate failure: a survival analysis

Susan Parker, Gary F. Peters, Howard F. Turetsky

This study investigates the association of various corporate governance attributes and financial characteristics with the survival likelihood of distressed firms. To address the…

Market crossroads: fertile ground for board development

Michael F. Kipp, Robert Hunter, Mara Aspinall

Governing boards are a bit like meteors above an organizational “planet”. If they position themselves too far above it all, they are likely to float at an innocuous distance…

Enron, board governance and moral failings

Gerald Zandstra

The failure of the Enron Corporation has brought attention to the roles played by the chief executive officer and other executives of the modern corporation. Its failure has also…

All numbers are not created equal: Measurement issues in assessing board governance

Edward H. Scissons

This paper discusses common problems evident in many governance reviews with particular emphasis on the measurement problems often evident in such undertakings. The paper is…

Evaluating corporate board cultures and decision making

Bruce Cutting, Alexander Kouzmin

This paper relies on a “trinity of menetypes” of group knowing which captures the essential decision‐making dynamics of board membership. Formal, corporate decision‐making…