Strategic Governance: How to assess board effectiveness in guiding strategy execution

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-22

  Schmidt, Sascha L ^a,b,c   Brauer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Board effectiveness; Corporate governance; Corporate strategy; Rating agencies; Strategy consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645020890     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2006.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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