Membership of the Board of Directors: The Job Top Executives Want No More

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Risks, Challenges and Benefits from Board Membership....Pages 1-19
Imagination and Corporate Objectives....Pages 20-37
Making a Strategic Plan....Pages 38-59
Reasons for Strategic Planning....Pages 60-82
The Board of Directors....Pages 83-107
The Business of the Board....Pages 108-134
Corporate Policy: Its Strategic Role....Pages 135-161
Qualities a Good Director Needs....Pages 162-183
Training the Corporate Directors....Pages 184-198
Satisfying the Information Needs of the Board....Pages 199-222
The Savage Competition for Strategic Products....Pages 223-246
The International Corporation....Pages 247-267
Organisational Perspectives in Multinational Business....Pages 268-289
The Big Corporations’ Fear: Litigation....Pages 290-306
Mergers, Acquisitions and Disinvestment....Pages 307-325
Venture Capital and the Board....Pages 326-345
How Successful is a Consolidation Policy?....Pages 346-363
Government and Industry: Partnership or Conflict?....Pages 364-387
Epilogue....Pages 388-402
Back Matter....Pages 403-416