Due to the gap in understanding board leadership and specifically, board shared leadership, this article aims at proposing some antecedents of the emergence of board shared leadership. This article incorporates three bodies of literature: Team effectiveness, team leadership, and board management. Based on integrating several theoretical perspectives, nine propositions are developed in relation ...

In this paper, design of an autonomous microrobotic endoscopy system is presented. The proposed microrobotic endoscope is a vision-guided device, developed to facilitate navigation inside a human colon. The design of the entire system is divided into three areas viz. design of a microrobotic carrier, path planning and guidance, and an off-board control system. A microrobotic design based on pne...

By 2010, all but 12 U.S. states had adopted some form of research and development tax credits. The forces driving the rapid rise and spread of this policy remain unclear. This event history analysis finds adoption to be associated with higher state unemployment levels, supporting the notion of “policy-making from disadvantage.” Yet higher patenting activity is also associated with adoption, sug...

Gender equality in leadership positions is important for sport organizations to achieve economic and social sustainability. Based on a multi-level framework, this study examines spillover effects from state-level factors organizations’ environment critical masses of women their boards (in terms share numbers) board gender diversity (reflected by different types boards). Data national regional g...

THIS AGREEMENT between the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, governing body for the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine (UNMC) and the house officer has been executed and entered into this first day of July, 2009 and shall be effective from July 1, 2009, through and including June 30, 2010. Except as otherwise set forth in this agreement, the benefits, terms,...

Our research focuses on the private benefits of politicians as board directors Spanish savings banks (cajas). We use hand-collected data political affiliation and personal loans 1,578 to investigate whether used through excessive loans, granted their parties, or institutions they represented. results show that a higher proportion is associated with larger better terms than those non-political d...

School board trustees play an important role in the education of children throughout Ontario. Using online survey Ontario residents, expectations school are explored detail. The included open-ended question that asked respondents what they see being performed by trustees, as well a whether preferred “delegate” governing model, which believes should represent constituents, or “trustee” render de...