Overview
Key facts
Research on boards focuses on examining how they influence firm strategic decisions and outcomes. Traditionally, this research focuses on linking board and/or individual characteristics to measures of firm decision-making and performance.
More recently, researchers have begun to focus on contextualizing the role of boards in determining firm decisions and outcomes. Various contextual variables such as formal (law, regulations, quality of government) and informal institutions (culture, values, trust) have been considered as determinants of the way boards are characterized and formed, what their roles are, and how their members act and decide.
At the same time, part of the research on boards has been directed toward researching cognitive and behavioral aspects of teams’ and boards’ decision-making processes.
Studies in this field aim at opening the so-called “black box” to find out how interactions between the individual team and board members affect decision making, team, and board effectiveness and, ultimately, also organizational performance.
Among other things, this research focuses on analyzing the importance of behavioral and cognitive aspects such as trust, conflict and conflict management, commitment, information sharing, reflexivity, etc. on the team and organizational performance.
Education
The Corporate Governance and the Effectiveness of Boards programme at the University of Groningen aims to determine to what extent their questions, methods, data, and outcomes are complementary or substitutes. Our approach is multi-disciplinary, meaning that we discuss research from economics, finance, management and sociology, and psychology.
The programme also deals with measurement issues and discuss datasets and methodologies to use these datasets in research. Participants are invited to present their own research (ideas) in the field of board effectiveness.
Programme Structure
Topics will include:- Corporate governance and agency theory
- Executive compensation
- Board composition and dynamics
- Board leadership
- Ownership structure and the role of shareholders
- Data and methods in corporate governance research: Dealing with endogeneity
- Comparative corporate governance
- Business elites and top management teams
- Corporate governance research: Using survey data
- Recent trends in corporate governance research
- Presentations of research proposals and papers
Audience
This course is designed for ReMa, PhDs, Postdocs, academic staff members and practitioners with relevant academic background. Participants are expected to have a solid background in business, economics or management studies (at least at the Bachelor level).
Lecturers
- Prof. Dr. Niels Hermes
- Prof. Reggy Hooghiemstra
- Prof. Kees van Veen
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
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Disciplines
Finance Management Studies Corporate Communication View 14 other Short Courses in Finance in NetherlandsWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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Other requirements
General requirements
- CV
- Motivation letter
- Own research paper or proposal for presentation (if available)
Tuition Fee
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International
650 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 650 EUR for the full programme during 5 days. -
EU/EEA
650 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 650 EUR for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Groningen
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.