Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to the Boards of Directors standing track (T-02-02) at the European Academy of Management (EURAM). The annual EURAM conference is taking place in Paris, 1-4 June 2016.
Important deadlines
Deadline for paper submission: 12 January 2016 (2 pm Belgian time) Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2016 Early birds registration deadline: 1 April 2016 Authors registration deadline: 12 April 2016
Paper submission guidelines can be found on the conference website http://euram-online.org/submissions-guidelines-for-conference-tasks/papers-submission-guidelines.html
Track description
Over the last decades, the role of boards of directors and their influence on firm behavior and firm outcome have been topic of debate. Research into board effectiveness may now be categorized under three streams: (1) economics/law approaches to board effectiveness, focusing on structures and incentives; (2) sociology/actual board behavior approaches, focusing on board processes; and (3) social psychology approaches, focusing on cognition. Research spans a wide variety of units of analysis (firm, team, director) as well as methodologies (survey, archival, observational). Indeed, for the purpose of this topic, the effectiveness of boards is an important and growing research stream. The composition of boards, particularly diversity and gender equality issues, the processes in boards, and board task performance are considered inputs to effective boards.
This topic seeks to contribute to these streams of research by inviting papers that examine boards of directors and their relationships with other governance institutions, such as the top management team or the works council, from either of the three abovementioned approaches, i.e., studies exploring the antecedents and consequences of board (non)involvement as well as analyzing the dynamics, processes and structures in these corporate governance mechanisms.
Appropriate topics include, but are not limited, to:
· How do boards of directors function? How do the processes and dynamics affect firm performance?
· What determines the balance of board tasks under various conditions? Are boards variously active under different ownership structures, or in different countries, and why is this?
· What is the influence of board composition, in particular gender composition, on board performance? What drives female presence on boards?
· What bundle of characteristics (gender, experience, age, etc.) influences board processes, and board performance?
· How do Women directors contribute/affect boards and board dynamics? What is the role of institutions and regulations
· What is the role of affirmative action policies (regulations and institutions) on boards composition and board dynamics?
· How does individual actor behavior aggregate to the functioning of the board as a whole?
· What do boards actually do? What is their real contribution? How and when are boards of directors or board members involved in their control, service and strategic roles? How do they combine the seemingly conflicting demands posed by these roles?
If you have a paper which fits the description of the track, we do hope you consider submitting to the Boards of Directors standing track at the European Academy of Management. We are ready to answer any question you may have regarding our track.
Best regards,
Gerwin van der Laan (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Mariateresa Torchia (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany)
Patricia Gabaldon (IE Business School, Spain)
Jonas Gabrielsson (Lund University, Sweden)
Dr. Gerwin van der Laan
Program Director Business and Management, University College Tilburg
Assistant Professor of Management, Department of Management
Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Room K1102a
Phone (+31)(0)13 466 8767
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=g.vdrlaan
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/gerwinvanderlaan