Add to ORKGFor many public organisations, boards are the primary accountability mechanisms for management. Boards have a multipronged portfolio: strategic advice, employment, external linkage and critical scrutiny. The literature casts serious doubts about their capabilities. There is 'managerial dominance'. This article reviews existing studies on public sector boards and identifies important reasons why boards are likely to fail as accountability mechanisms. This sets the stage for a new research agenda. When are boards more effective on the micro-level? How to organise effective checks and balances around organisations? And why has the board-model become so popular: is this learning or blame-shifting
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that notwithstanding the fact that stewardship th...
Based on the extended Agency-Structure model, this article addresses the issue of public sector boar...
Abstract Administrative leadership in UK central government has been reformed through the creation o...
For many public organisations, boards are the primary accountability mechanisms for management. Boar...
Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non-profit organizations are public...
In the wake of the financial crisis, there has been much discussion about whether boards (particular...
Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non-profit organizations are public...
Accountability is frequently referred to in the corporate governance literature, and it is clearly r...
In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been directed toward the field of governing bodi...
In public sector literature the dimensions influencing the governing bodies effectiveness are announ...
The paper is based on a two-year participant observer study of the governance failures in a UK housi...
For more than two decades, successive UK governments have been concerned with modernising the delive...
About the book: Boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and nonprofit publicly accountabl...
Compared to the debate on corporate governance in the private sector and to the literature on the m...
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that notwithstanding the fact that stewardship th...
Based on the extended Agency-Structure model, this article addresses the issue of public sector boar...
Abstract Administrative leadership in UK central government has been reformed through the creation o...
For many public organisations, boards are the primary accountability mechanisms for management. Boar...
Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non-profit organizations are public...
In the wake of the financial crisis, there has been much discussion about whether boards (particular...
Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non-profit organizations are public...
Accountability is frequently referred to in the corporate governance literature, and it is clearly r...
In recent years, increasing scholarly attention has been directed toward the field of governing bodi...
In public sector literature the dimensions influencing the governing bodies effectiveness are announ...
The paper is based on a two-year participant observer study of the governance failures in a UK housi...
For more than two decades, successive UK governments have been concerned with modernising the delive...
About the book: Boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and nonprofit publicly accountabl...
Compared to the debate on corporate governance in the private sector and to the literature on the m...
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that notwithstanding the fact that stewardship th...
Based on the extended Agency-Structure model, this article addresses the issue of public sector boar...
Abstract Administrative leadership in UK central government has been reformed through the creation o...