In a January 31, 2003 letter to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) (Footnote 2) commenting on its proposed new standards, leaders of the hospital bar made their position clear (Footnote 3). According to them, the medical staff is not an independent, self-governing body -it is just a part of the hospital, like the dietary department. In their view, the medi...

companies' continuity, because all companies have some relations with the society;therefore, the society provides long-term survival of the company.in this way, companies in addition to economic responsibility, must take responsibilityof social issues. therefore, with respect to corporate social responsibility andits revelations, the current paper examines the relationship between social r...

This study investigates how personal values may affect strategic decisions of board members in dilemmas involving shareholders and other stakeholders. In a survey of the entire population of directors and CEOs in all public corporations in one country, we use vignettes that are based on seminal court cases to identify a general factor of shareholderism (vs. stakeholderism). Directors and CEOs e...

The recent issue of the Corporate Ownership and Control journal can be referred to as a special because truly international outlook provided by scholars built around major issues — an board directors’ practices, firm performance, sustainability

Research Question/Issue Using insights from an in-depth qualitative interview study, we propose input-process-output model where the link between women directors (input) and corporate financial performance (output) is mediated by board attendance serves as a proxy of several intermediate but latent processes. Further, dig deeper into nonlinearities female boardroom representation analyzing in h...

unfortunately, her older son, Drew, was unable to be with us today. Thank you all for being here for me this afternoon! I was born and raised in Great Britain of Welsh parents and spoke Welsh as my first language until I was five years of age and started school. Although I was educated in English, I consider Welsh to be my mother tongue and indeed still speak to my mother in our native language...