Boards attributes and their implications on decision-making process

Communication and Decision-Making in Corporate Boards

This paper develops a model of communication and decision-making in corporate boards. The key element of the paper is that the quality of board communication is endogenous, because it depends on the e¤ort directors put into trying to communicate their information to others. In the model, directors may have biases regarding board decisions and may also be reluctant to disagree with other directo...

Typology of Obese Patients’ Attitude to Life and Their Decision-Making Process for Bariatric Surgery

The present study aimed to perform the typology of obese people’s attitude to life and their decision-making for bariatric cosmetic surgery. The researcher selected an inductive approach to answer the questions of this study. Phenomenological method as the main method of the study with semi-structured interview technique helped the researcher collect data. The population included those who had ...

Mission-based decision-making for boards.

Decision making dynamics in corporate boards

Members of boards of directors of large corporations who also serve together on an outside board, form the so called interlock graph of the board and are assumed to have a strong influence on each others’ opinion. We here study how the size and the topology of the interlock graph affect the probability that the board approves a strategy proposed by the Chief Executive Officer. We propose a meas...

Ethical implications and decision making in care education process.

OBJECTIVE To determine ethical implications for nursing practice at the point of decision making by nursing professors in practice area. METHODOLOGY A qualitative method was adopted, with use of semistructured interviews with sixteen nursing professors who delivered care at a teaching hospital in Salvador, Bahia, from May to June 2011. The methodological reference used was the discourse of th...