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 ...

Purpose – Although board expertise has been identified as an important determinant of board performance, some surveys are still reporting that the overall level of board expertise is insufficient to carry out current and emerging roles. Consequently, companies must ensure that board members have the required skills and knowledge. This study aims to examine three board processes aimed at develop...

the aim of this study was to fit regression equation of knowledge management and organizational effectiveness in iran sport organizations to determine the effect of knowledge management processes on organizational effectiveness. the statistical population consisted of all staff managers of the ministry of sport and youth, executive board of national olympic committee, staff managers of the nati...

This paper addresses recent calls to narrow the micro-macro gap in management research (Bamberger, 2008), by incorporating a macro-level context variable (country) in exploring micro-level determinants of board effectiveness. Following the integrated model proposed by Forbes and Milliken (1999), we identify three board processes as micro-level determinants of board effectiveness. Specifically, ...

In this paper we analyze boards of directors as workgroups, i.e., groups of people that perform one or more tasks within an organizational context. Building on previous studies, we developed a model that relates group’s social-psychological processes to three different board tasks: service, monitoring, and networking. We tested our model through a survey on 301 large manufacturing firms in Ital...