Corporate boards: the new corporate leaders

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Corporate boards: the new corporate leaders

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University of Waikato

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The historic view that corporate leaders serving on company boards are merely the legal stewards of shareholders is no longer the best explanation for the role of directors. This stakeholder theory is too simplistic to explain the many differing and sometimes competing interests of inside and outside directors of corporations. Based on large-scale research, we conclude that company directors' roles have become more complex and require a sophisticated skill level to perform well. We find in lo...

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Research paper

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Journal article

Date created

2009-01

Creator

Mueller, Jens / Warrick, Donald D. / Rennie, Morina / Dana, Leo-Paul

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/3353

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shareholders / leadership / commitment

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