Seeking God (in the details)

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Levangie

Entrepreneurs tend to be self-styled “idea” people. They often believe they have the next “Big Concept”‐one which could change the world, reaffirm their self-worth, and, of course, make them and their venture team a fortune. In contrast, as they build a company to implement their business dream, entrepreneurs also tend to eschew or trivialize administrative details. Why should they waste their creative juices on minutia? As a result of this insensitivity to detail, these captains of capitalism often trip in their entrepreneurial journey. For example, they might: •Forget to remit payroll taxes on schedule. •Fail to document the justification underpinning the dismissal of a key employee. •Allow the company℉s liability insurance to lapse. •Neglect to report sales usage tax. •Verbally grant employee incentive stock options during an informal luncheon meeting, at a yet-to-be-determined exercise price and without the board of directors℉ approval.

Author(s):  
Nils Brunsson

This chapter continues to analyze the relationship between decision and action using a case study on Swedish Rail (Statens Järnvägar, SJ). In February 1987, the board of directors of SJ met to consider a plan drawn up by an international consultancy company to implement a radical reform, the ‘New SJ’. The basic idea was to make the company more businesslike. SJ was to be run as a company and not as a government service, and its corporate aim was to be a profitable business. The chapter addresses the question of why reforms may be difficult to implement. It suggests that there are certain fundamental and common characteristics of administrative reforms which make them difficult to implement by nature.


Res Publica ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 503-515
Author(s):  
Herman Santy

The 1974 election-period has been sustained intensively by the BRT (Belgian Radio and Television Corporation). The Board of Directors decided to do sa in order to accomplish the corporation's task of objective information.The political parties also used intensively the extra air-time accorded by the same Board of Directors, for their clection-campaign. As for all political parties all over the world, radio and even more television air-time, is seen as an indispensable instrument for diffusing party-coloured information.


Author(s):  
Leslie Kosmin ◽  
Catherine Roberts

The two key organs of a company are the board of directors and the members of the company exercising their constitutional rights in a general meeting. Company law attaches great significance to the due convening of general meetings of shareholders. The general meeting is the forum for considering many of the essential matters relating to the company’s affairs including increasing or reducing the share capital of the company, changes to the memorandum or articles of association, alterations to the composition of the board of directors, considering the content of the company’s financial statements and approving dividends.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Maleakhi W. Sitompul

Research on the recording of changes to directors in the relevant Ministry, namely the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, aims to examine whether the authorized Directors in a company are Directors registered at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. In addition, it is also to examine whether the provisions of Law no. 40 of 2007 concerning Limited Liability Companies and / or the Company's Articles of Association is sufficient to resolve disputes of authority in the event of a dispute regarding the composition and number of directors in a company, which one has the right to act against other parties. Disputes regarding the composition and authority of the Board of Directors in a limited liability company often become disputes in court, even though Indonesia's positive legal provisions have provided clear and firm rules about who the Board of Directors can represent in and out of court. Based on research, it can be seen that the starting point is from the provisions in Law No. 40 of 2007 Articles 29 and 98, changes in the members of the board of directors can only be effective for third parties, as from the date the changes are recorded in the Company Register by the Minister of Law and Human Rights in accordance with Law No. 40 of 2007 Articles 29 and 98.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Carla Morrone ◽  
Alberto Tron ◽  
Federico Colantoni ◽  
Salvatore Ferri

The aim of this paper is to investigate if top executives’ turnover affects the performance of a company and if it differently impacts the performances of a healthy and a restructured company. In order to investigate the impact of the renewal of both members of the board of directors and CEO impacts on company profitability, we performed a quantitative analysis based on a sample of 144 Italian companies using a logit model. The findings show that management changes influence the performance of a company. However, the results show a different impact for healthy and restructured companies. The renewal of the board of directors negatively affects the performances of a healthy company while influences positively the probability of a future increase in performances for restructured companies, suggesting useful implications for scholars and practitioners. This analysis confirms that the renewal of top executives can affect the probability of an increase of company performances, especially for distressed firms, contributing to existing literature which is still limited and focused only on few countries.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Sukiantono Tang ◽  
Shandy Shandy

This study aims to examine the effect of the characteristics of the board of directors on earnings management. Board characteristics are the most important part in the structure or governance of a company and government in limiting or preventing earnings management by a company manager. This study uses data from companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) which include annual reports from 2015 to 2019 except insurance companies, financial and banking institutions. Sampling of data was done by purposive sampling technique. This study combined the research object and one time dimension. This research was conducted using panel data regression test based on data that had been collected using SPSS and Eviews 10 software. The best model chosen for this research model was the Fixed Effect Model. The results showed that the board independent, board meeting, board of directors expertise, size of the audit committee, independent audit committee, audit committee meeting, audit committee expertise, leverage and big4 has no influence on the dependent variable earnings management. Then the size of the board of directors has a negative significant on earnings management. Meanwhile, company size and growth have a positive significant on earnings management.


Weed Science ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-439
Author(s):  
R. L. Zimdahl

The first WSSA international session was organized by the society's International Affairs Committee with approval of the Board of Directors. The committee's objective was to present a broad view of weed research in the world. To do this, we invited participants who were presently, or who had been, on the staff of one of the international agricultural research centers. We also invited Dr. M. Horowitz, the WSSA Honorary Member for 1979, to present information on his work in Israel.


1955 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
M. C. Robinson

To clarify thinking on the subject, the 1955 convention of the American Association of Workers for the Blind will devote time and discussion to various considerations in government provision of financial assistance to blind citizens. In anticipation, it seems appropriate to present here at least parts of the contents of two papers on the general subject that were presented last summer at the General Assembly of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind in Paris, by Capt. M. C. Robinson and H. A. Wood, respectively. Incorporated herein also are pertinent resolutions adopted by the World Council and the Board of Directors of the American Association of Workers for the Blind. The World Council resolution (No. 8) consists of two paragraphs, each of which was originally adopted separately and which were subsequently combined as they appear here. The first paragraph is substantially the same as Resolution V of the International Conference of Workers for the Blind, held at Merton College, Oxford, in 1949; it is quoted in part also in the introductory sentences of Mr. Wood's paper below. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the AAWB subsequent to the 1954 Paris meeting of the World Council, the Board's attitude toward that resolution (No. 8) is reported to have been discussed. After consideration, the Board is reported to have determined that any formal statement of policy could only be made by mandate of the Association membership except that reaffirmation of previously adopted policy could be made. This is what was done in the action quoted herein. The papers prepared for the Paris meeting were, of course, directed toward the international audience comprising the World Council and should be read with that fact in mind. Capt. Robinson is national director of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, for Western Canada, and president of the AAWB (1953–55); Mr. Wood is executive secretary of the North Carolina State Commission for the Blind.—Editor.


Author(s):  
Leslie Kosmin ◽  
Catherine Roberts

It is usual for a valid board meeting to be chaired by one of the directors who will act as the chairman of the board. The chairman is the person who has control of the conduct of the meeting. The person who occupies the position of chairman of the board of directors holds an important position in the hierarchy of a company. It is the responsibility of the chairman to manage the board meeting and, in consultation with the chief executive officer and the company secretary, to set the agenda for board meetings. In managing a board meeting a chairman must ensure that all members of the board receive accurate and proper information in a timely manner so as to enable them to take informed management decisions.


2009 ◽  
pp. 176-180
Author(s):  
Donatella Nardelli

- I have got to know professor Achille Ardigň during the eighties at the University of Bologna where I had the chance to be one of his students while he was full professor of the desk of "Sociology - advanced course". Later on, from 2000 till 2007 I had the great fortune to work together with him in CUP 2000 S.p.A., a company based in Bologna he was charter member, a component of the Board of directors for two orders, President of the Scientific Committee and Responsible for the care projects; thanks to his scientific contribute I became Responsible for the care projects where I had been already working since 2003.Keywords: teacher, booklet, humility, Charismatic Catholic, e-care, welfare, elderly.Parole chiave: maestro, libretto, umiltÀ, carismatico, cattolico, e-care, welfare, anziani.


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