aim of the present research was to design a proper model for management of knowledge in environmental organizations of country. in study of the model, suitability of the proposed model was researched by asking views of directors, deputies, managers of groups and scientific board members of environmental organizations of country. for this purpose, with review of research literature, insight pro...

BACKGROUND National Health Service (NHS) trusts, which provide the majority of hospital and community health services to the English NHS, are increasingly adopting a 'public firm' model with a board consisting of executive directors who are trust employees and external non-executives chosen for their experience in a range of areas such as finance, health care and management. In this paper we co...

We appreciate the helpful commerrts and suggestions of Janic» Beyer, Daniei Brass. Linda Johanson, E)awd Kang, Timothy Pollock, Wiiiiam Swann. D ^ n e Taras, Edward Zajac, and three arronymous ASQ reviewers. We atso thank /^na Maria Peredo and Douglas Vickerson for their lebrary research support. This study examines how the influence of directors who are demographic minorities on corporate boar...

Interlocking directorates is a major element in corporate governance system. Interlock occurs when a director of one company sits on the board of directors of other companies. This phenomenon has given rise to number of concerns in the economy. The relationships of some companies’ attributes and corporate interlocks in Kuwait Stock Exchange among publically listed companies are i...

The article investigates the relationship between ownership structure and the role played by the board of directors in the strategic decision process. A comparative case study of strategic decision processes indicates that ownership concentration, the nature of shareholders’ interests and the distribution of relevant knowledge affect the key functions performed by the board of directors, the in...

Recent studies indicate that lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks is concentrated towardsdebt-based portfolio; however, the ideal should be an equity-based portfolio. This article explores effects of internal governance factors on portfolio compositionofIslamic GCC Region. The investigated are board directors’ characteristics (size and independence), Shariah supervisory attributes cros...

This paper examines the impact of Board characteristics (board size, board independence, and gender) on corporate policy dividend for a set 128 firm-year listed companies manufacturing sector from Amman Stock Exchange between years 2016-2018. The directors have great influence in handling agency conflict. They approve any decision made by executive manager before decisions manner. Also, dividen...