BOARD COMPOSITION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: ENVIRONMENTAL CHARATERISTICS MATTER

Do the Board of Directors Composition and the Board Interlocking Influence on Performance?

Organizational Design and Environmental Performance: Clues from the Electronics Industry

Based on a congruence model of organizational design, we argue that direct reporting relationships between plant managers and environmental quality managers, monetary incentives for environmental performance, and cross-functional coordination between environmental quality managers and business strategists will reduce plant-level toxic emissions. Empirical tests of these three relationships were...

Board Composition , Committees and Organizational Efficiency : The Case of Nonprofits by Jeffrey

This paper investigates the relationship between nonprofit board composition and organizational efficiency. We test the hypothesis advanced by Fama and Jensen (1983) that the presence of major donors on the board and on key monitoring committees is associated with greater organizational efficiency due to donor monitoring activities. The multivariate analysis shows that the ratio of total expens...

Intra-Organizational Integration and Innovation: Organizational Structure, Environmental Contingency and R&D Performance

It is widely thought that intra-firm integration has a positive effect on organizational performance, especially in environments characterized by complex and uncertain information. However, counter arguments suggest that integration may limit flexibility and thereby reduce performance in the face of uncertainty. Research and development activities of a firm are especially likely to face complex...

Does Greenness Matter? Environmental Performance, Ownership Structure and Analyst Coverage

We examine how the ownership, analyst coverage and stock market valuation of a sample of U.S. firms vary with their environmental performance. Both “green” and “toxic” firms have a larger number of shareholders but a smaller percentage of institutional owners and ownership stakes relative to environmentally neutral firms. Nonetheless, toxic firms have higher institutional ownership than green f...