Table of Contents
Foreword xv
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Boards of Directors Have Failed and We Don’t Know Why 5
Chapter 2: The Many Forms of the Modern Corporation 31
Chapter 3: Contemporary Directors: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and How Well Do They Do It? 49
Chapter 4: Best Board Practices and Assessments: Necessary but Not Enough 81
Chapter 5: The Traditional Board: The Triumph of Structure 105
Chapter 6: The Effective Board: Function Not Form 133
Chapter 7: Effective Directors for Effective Boards: Putting Them Together 153
Chapter 8: The Director Behavioural Types 171
Chapter 9: A Special Type of Director: The Chair of the Board 201
Chapter 10: “C-B-S-R”—How to Build a Better Board 221
Chapter 11: The Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance 245
Appendix A: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodologies: How Do They Differ? 259
Appendix B: The Research Process: Getting into the Boardrooms, Obtaining the Interviews and Analyzing the Data 263
Bibliography 285
Index 299
