Management Decision: Volume 57 Issue 10

Governance and network: cross-national differences

Rosa Caiazza

Coordination, control, or charade? The role of board interlocks among business group members

Fabio Zona, Brian Keane Boyd, Katalin Takacs Haynes

How do business groups manage their internal processes? The purpose of this paper is to explore how board interlocks between members serve as control and coordination mechanisms…

Board networks as a source of intellectual capital for companies: Empirical evidence from a panel of Spanish firms

David Blanco-Alcántara, José María Díez-Esteban, M. Elena Romero-Merino

The purpose of this paper is to use the dynamic capabilities framework to explain the effect of board networks, as a source of intellectual capital, on firm performance. The…

Board social capital reduces implied cost of capital for private companies but not of state-owned companies

Alex Ferreira Goncalves, Luciano Rossoni, Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the type of ownership and control moderates the effect of the board social capital on the implied cost of capital. To do so, the…

Director interlocks and cross-cultural impact on strategies affecting shareholder–creditor conflicts: A conceptual analysis

Vinita Ramaswamy

Director interlocks, with their extended resources and shared experiences, have the potential power to go beyond the basic role of providing advice and monitoring the activities…

How nation-level background governance conditions shape the economic payoffs of corporate environmental performance

Sukhbir Sandhu, Marc Orlitzky, Céline Louche

Companies develop and implement environmental initiatives in particular national governance and institutional contexts. The purpose of this paper is to study how the background…

Corporate governance and risk in cross-listed and Canadian only companies

Atreya Chakraborty, Lucia Gao, Shahbaz Sheikh

The purpose of this paper is to investigate if there is a differential effect of corporate governance mechanisms on firm risk in Canadian companies cross-listed on US markets and…

The impact of family vs non-family governance contingencies on CSR reporting in Bangladesh

Pallab K. Biswas, Helen Roberts, Rosalind H. Whiting

Based on the socioemotional wealth (SEW) perspective and agency theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine how the introduction of the 2006 Corporate Governance (CG…

Director interlocks and the strategic pacing of CSR activities

Bilal Al-Dah

Throughout years of corporate social responsibility (CSR) debates, most studies have focused on whether or not a firm should engage in CSR activities, while giving little…

The impact of interlocking directorates on innovation: the effects of business and social ties

Ana B. Hernández-Lara, Juan P. Gonzales-Bustos

Boards of directors of large companies all over the world frequently have a certain number of shared directors, which can be motivated by social structures that foster different…

The role of start-up incubators in cooperation networks from the perspective of resource dependence and interlocking directorates

Anderson Galvão, Carla Marques, Mário Franco, Carla Mascarenhas

Based on resource dependence theory and the concept of interlocking directorates, the purpose of this paper is to understand the importance of networks for start-ups and the role…

Directorate ties: a bibliometric analysis

Rosa Caiazza, Michele Simoni

Over the last 100 years, research on interlocking directorates has proliferated. The purpose of this paper is to realize a bibliometric analysis of articles on interlocking…