Handbook of Top Management Teams

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxix
Introduction: Executive Governance and Top Management Teams....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Top Management Teams....Pages 23-30
Profile of the Top Executives of CAC 40 Companies....Pages 31-37
Diversity and Top Management Teams....Pages 38-44
Performance of Top Management Teams: The Dynamics of Elective Affinities....Pages 45-51
Company Culture and Chief Executives....Pages 52-59
Managing Strategic Contradictions: A Top Management Team Model for Simultaneously Exploring and Exploiting....Pages 60-70
Learning in Executive Teams and Replacing the Chief Executive....Pages 71-76
Company Executives: A Possible New Social Group....Pages 79-96
The HRD (Human Resources Director)-MD (Managing Director) Double Act....Pages 97-101
The Entourage of the Top Executive: Definition and Functions....Pages 102-109
Strategic Human Resource Management of Top Management Team Social Networks: Controlling Executive Relationships for Enhanced Organisational Advantage....Pages 110-117
The Internal Career Orientations of Executives....Pages 121-125
Career Anchors for Leaders....Pages 126-133
Career Management Practices....Pages 134-146
The Path of the Top Executive....Pages 147-155
Senior Executive Compensation in France: Principles and Practice....Pages 156-172
Pay and Performance at Director Level....Pages 173-182
The Shadow Side of Leadership....Pages 183-190
Top Executives: Under Pressure and Putting Pressure....Pages 191-199
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Management of Health Assets: Are Top Executives Up to It?....Pages 200-206
Stress Takes a Toll on Leaders....Pages 207-213
Toxic Leadership: A Conceptual Framework....Pages 214-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Identifying Future Managers and Developing Top Potential....Pages 225-234
The Singular Origin of Top Managers in France....Pages 235-241
Background, Identification and Training of Executives in France and Germany....Pages 242-249
The Process of Initiation for the Future Senior Executive....Pages 250-257
Coaching: Who Wants to Be a Top Executive?....Pages 258-262
The Role and Influence of Firm Founders....Pages 263-269
Company Management and Institutions: The Contribution of Neo-Institutionalist Theories....Pages 270-276
Executive Education: A Process of Continuous Development....Pages 279-286
The Training of Top Executives....Pages 287-290
Leadership Development Evaluation....Pages 291-298
Unconventional Paradigms in Management: When Should Top Management Leave the Groove towards Nonconformity? The Cases of the Black Box Model and Monetary Incentives....Pages 299-306
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership at the Top....Pages 307-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Reducing Violence, the New Role of Top Executive....Pages 321-329
The Top Executive’s Martial Art: His Strategic Approach....Pages 330-337
Human Excellence and Governance: The Confucius Challenge....Pages 338-351
Stages of Leadership Development....Pages 352-356
The Theory of Organisations and the CEO....Pages 357-361
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Leaders’ Self-Defeating Response to Perceived Underperformance....Pages 362-369
Advice to Top Executives: Keep an Eye on Technology!....Pages 373-379
Is the Executive a Strategist?....Pages 380-385
Executives and Decisions....Pages 386-391
How Boards of Directors Interact as Decision-making Groups....Pages 392-398
Ambiguous Relations: The Journalist and the Corporate Executive....Pages 401-406
Lessons from the Dark Side of Information Use: The Impact on People, Values and Company Performance....Pages 407-412
The Organisational Grapevine: Lessons for Business Leaders....Pages 413-420
Multilingual Top Management Teams....Pages 421-427
Elements of Narratology for Use by Top Executives....Pages 428-433
A Bilingual Encyclopaedia: The Translator’s Challenge....Pages 434-439
Organisational Transformation: Moves and Rhythms....Pages 440-448
Facilitating Strategic Renewal by Managing Strategic Role Conflict....Pages 449-459
‘Intrapreneurship’: Corporate Entrepreneurship Developing an Entrepreneurial Dynamic within Large Businesses....Pages 460-468
‘R.S.V.P.’: A Methodology to Ensure the Success of Organisational Transformation Projects....Pages 469-476
Top Management and Labour Relations....Pages 477-483
Chief Executives and Crisis Management....Pages 487-491
The Director in Crisis Situations....Pages 492-498
The Influence of Governance Characteristics on the Strategic Response to a Failed Takeover Bid....Pages 499-502
Everyday Management of Top Executives’ Priorities....Pages 505-512
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Timing and Innovation: Explicit Trade-offs....Pages 513-518
The Three Time Frames in Corporate Organisation and Management....Pages 519-527
Planning and Budgeting: A New Approach for Senior Management....Pages 531-539
Bounded Rationality, Sunk Costs and Industry Structure....Pages 540-546
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Top Managers and Internationalisation Decisions....Pages 551-558
The Role of Cultural Distance and Corporate Governance in the Decision to Expand Internationally....Pages 559-565
Corporate Governance....Pages 569-575
The Agency Theory, CEO Entrenchment and Corporate Governance Theories....Pages 576-582
Mapping the Corporate Governance Landscape....Pages 583-591
The International Convergence of Systems of Corporate Governance....Pages 592-598
Corporate Governance in Russia: A State of the Art....Pages 601-609
Governance of Family Businesses....Pages 610-617
Top Management Strata and Governance in Professional Services Firms: Structural and Agency Challenges....Pages 618-625
The Overall Management of French State-Owned Companies in Question....Pages 626-632
Internationalisation of the Shareholding of Large Companies: Impact on the Function of Top Executives....Pages 633-646
Executive Replacement and Shareholder Wealth: A Review of the Theoretical Literature....Pages 649-653
A User’s Guide for Interpreting the CEO Letter to Shareholders....Pages 654-662
Increasing Firm Value Through Detection and Prevention of White-Collar Crime....Pages 663-673
Ethicists, Corporate Responsibility and Executive Action....Pages 674-681
Front Matter....Pages 682-687
Ethics, Cynicism and Governance....Pages 547-547
For a Managerial Ethic....Pages 688-695
Back Matter....Pages 696-708
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