Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Membership of the Board of Directors

The Job Top Executives Want No More

  • Book
  • © 1988

Overview

Authors:
  1. Dimitris N. Chorafas
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Risks, Challenges and Benefits from Board Membership

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 1-19

  3. Imagination and Corporate Objectives

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 20-37

  4. Making a Strategic Plan

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 38-59

  5. Reasons for Strategic Planning

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 60-82

  6. The Board of Directors

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 83-107

  7. The Business of the Board

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 108-134

  8. Corporate Policy: Its Strategic Role

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 135-161

  9. Qualities a Good Director Needs

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 162-183

  10. Training the Corporate Directors

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 184-198

  11. Satisfying the Information Needs of the Board

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 199-222

  12. The Savage Competition for Strategic Products

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 223-246

  13. The International Corporation

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 247-267

  14. Organisational Perspectives in Multinational Business

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 268-289

  15. The Big Corporations’ Fear: Litigation

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 290-306

  16. Mergers, Acquisitions and Disinvestment

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 307-325

  17. Venture Capital and the Board

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 326-345

  18. How Successful is a Consolidation Policy?

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 346-363

  19. Government and Industry: Partnership or Conflict?

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 364-387

  20. Epilogue

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 388-402
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Being a member of the Board used to be a challenging job. It still is. But the nature of the challenge, the risk, even the professional qualifications required have changed. The book says how and why.

About the author

Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Membership of the Board of Directors

  • Book Subtitle: The Job Top Executives Want No More

  • Authors: Dimitris N. Chorafas

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10182-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-46366-6Published: 23 November 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-10182-5Published: 24 November 1988

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 416

  • Topics: International Business, Management

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation