Pieter-Jan Bezemer

TL;DR: In this article, a content-analysis of 150 articles published in 23 management journals up to 2007 is performed to understand the relationship between boards of directors and strategy. But, there is little theoretical and empirical agreement regarding the question of how board of directors contribute to strategy.

TL;DR: Video-observations of three board meetings at each of two Australian corporations matched with director interviews and secondary data reveal distinct patterns of director interactions, their sources of variation and impact on perceived board effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the spread of two types of corporate governance beliefs: the emerging focus on board independence and a shareholder value orientation through a series of five studies, utilizing multiple theoretical lenses, levels of analysis and methods, analyze developments in the formal independence of supervisory boards and a greater focus on shareholder value in the Netherlands.

TL;DR: In this paper, a content-analysis of 150 articles published in 23 management journals up to 2007, the authors describe and analyze how research on boards of directors and strategy has evolved over time and illustrate how topics, theories, settings, and sources of data interact and influence insights about board-strategy relationships.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of video-taped board meetings and semi-structured interviews with directors at three corporations was used to find a generalized and negative association between chair involvement and directors' engagement during board meetings.