Artikel
Boards of directors in SMEs: An empirical evidence of board task performance
This paper seeks to provide a better understanding of what makes boards effective. We analyse the relationships between board demography and company performance and between working structures and board tasks in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We test our hypotheses on a sample of 307 Spanish SMEs. The main empirical result is the negative impact that the proportion of outside directors and the board size have on firm performance. We also find a negative impact of outsiders' presence and a positive impact of director tenure on the board's service role. Our analysis of the role of board control highlights the negative relationship between this variable and CEO tenure.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: South African Journal of Business Management ; ISSN: 2078-5976 ; Volume: 47 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 47-58 ; Cape Town: African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS)
- Classification
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Management
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Iturralde, T.
Maseda, A.
Arosa, B.
García-Ramos, R.
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Veröffentlichung
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African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS)
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Cape Town
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2016
- DOI
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doi:10.4102/sajbm.v47i4.74
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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- Artikel
Associated
- Iturralde, T.
- Maseda, A.
- Arosa, B.
- García-Ramos, R.
- African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS)
Time of origin
- 2016
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