Why do directors feel so separate when they are interconnected?

This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the existence of the local social organization in conducting community empowerment. The experiment was conducted at Community Empowerment Institution (In Indonesia it is referred to as Lembaga Pemberdayaan Masyarakat/LPM). LPM Cibeunying as one of the local social institution in Bandung regency. Aspects reviewed in the study include the style of leadership, processes, and stages of community empowerment, as well as the LPM network. The research method used is a case study with the descriptive method and qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted against five informants consisting of the Chairman and LPMâ€™s Board members, village officials, and community leaders. The results show that the dominant leadership style is participative, in addition to that, a supportive leadership style and directive leadership style are also used in certain situations. The empowerment process carried out per the stages of the empowerment process is identifying and assessing the potential of the region, problems, and opportunities-chances; arranging a participative activity plan; implementing the activity plan; and monitoring and evaluating the process and results of activities. The social networking of LPM leads to a social network of power in which LPM can influence the behavior of communities and community institutions in utilizing and managing community empowerment programs. From the research, it can be concluded that the model of community empowerment implemented by LPM Cibeunying Village is enabling, empowering, and protecting.

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Self-control through board control: formalized governance in controlling owner family businesses

Corporate Ownership and Control ◽

10.22495/cocv14i2art12 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 123-136

Author(s):

Matthias Baumann ◽

Stephan Stubner

Keyword(s):

Challenging Behavior ◽

Family Businesses ◽

Self Control ◽

Board Members ◽

Control Problems ◽

Single Individual ◽

Board Processes ◽

Multiple Case

Our study examines the role of board control tasks in mitigating self-control problems in controlling owner family businesses. We challenge the common perception that controlling owners do not require and use board control because of the concentration of ownership and management in a single individual. We argue that self-control problems, that is agency problems with oneself, have often been overlooked by existing studies on the relevance of control tasks. By using a multiple case study design, we demonstrate that controlling owners frequently use board control as a self-governing mechanism and develop several propositions on favorable board processes and compositions. Rather than independence, we propose that controlling owners should select their board members based on trust and expertise. Moreover, we propose that probing and challenging behavior by board members in combination with the controlling owner’s willingness to prepare in a formalized manner support the reduction of self-control problems.

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Diffusing Management Information for Legal Compliance

Information Resources Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-965-1.ch703 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 1910-1928

Author(s):

Ashley Braganza ◽

Ray Hackney

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Study Analysis ◽

Section 404 ◽

Legal Compliance ◽

Resource Subsidies ◽

Global Organizations ◽

Case Study Analysis ◽

Sarbanes Oxley

Information systems are vital to successful compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. However, there is little published academic literature which reports systematic studies that explain how IS organizations implement 404. Institutional theory was adopted as the lens through which to examine the experiences of 404 implementation in three global organizations. The methodology for the research involved in-depth case study analysis. We conclude that key implementation drivers for 404 are directives from senior authorities, financial and resource subsidies, standards being set and adhered to, and knowledge being deployed. The findings are believed to present significant insights into the complexities and role of IS in providing valid and appropriate approaches to 404 compliance.

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Board Empowerment: What Motivates Board Members of Founder-Owned Companies?

Journal of Management Inquiry ◽

10.1177/1056492618759603 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 188-205

Author(s):

Alexander Libman ◽

Tatiana Dolgopyatova ◽

Andrei Yakovlev

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Emerging Markets ◽

Intrinsic Motivation ◽

Board Members ◽

Concentrated Ownership

This article investigates the role of boards in founder-managed firms with concentrated ownership in emerging markets. The literature frequently suggests that in this type of companies, boards have little influence on the corporate decision making. The article conducts a case study of AFK Sistema—a large Russian founder-managed firm with concentrated ownership. We observe that, contrary to the expectations, in this company, the founder provided real authority to the board, at the same time focusing on recruiting independent (mainly foreign) members. Based on this case, we argue that selectively empowering boards in this type of ownership setting could be beneficial for the firm: Selective empowerment is a source of intrinsic motivation for the independent board members, making them proactively search for new projects and assist in their implementation on behalf of the firm. As a result, the company can overcome a number of important barriers in its development.

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Diffusing Management Information for Legal Compliance

Advances in End User Computing - Computational Advancements in End-User Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-687-7.ch006 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 93-111

Author(s):

Ashley Braganza ◽

Ray Hackney

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Study Analysis ◽

Section 404 ◽

Legal Compliance ◽

Resource Subsidies ◽

Global Organizations ◽

Case Study Analysis ◽

Sarbanes Oxley

Information systems are vital to successful compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. However, there is little published academic literature which reports systematic studies that explain how IS organizations implement 404. Institutional theory was adopted as the lens through which to examine the experiences of 404 implementation in three global organizations. The methodology for the research involved in-depth case study analysis. We conclude that key implementation drivers for 404 are directives from senior authorities, financial and resource subsidies, standards being set and adhered to, and knowledge being deployed. The findings are believed to present significant insights into the complexities and role of IS in providing valid and appropriate approaches to 404 compliance.

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Living Memory, Embodied Experience, and What Gets Lost in the Story of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

English Language Notes ◽

10.1215/00138282-7716218 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 133-142

Author(s):

Cynthia Richards

Keyword(s):

Disability Studies ◽

Embodied Experience ◽

Current Events ◽

Definition Of ◽

Multidirectional Memory

Abstract This essay uses Alexander Pope’s celebrated poem The Rape of the Lock as a case study for understanding how to read literature in a way that is more cognizant of loss and for understanding the role of active and embodied remembering in doing so. It frames the poem as a type of literary memorial and then posits a different way of reading it as a form of active remembering and traumatic return. The essay also points toward the insights of disability studies and how that framework allows a definition of the human that sees loss as constitutive and hence “normal” rather than singular. The essay concludes by gesturing toward how the meaning/memory of this poem is ongoing and “subject to negotiation”—as Michael Rothberg argues in Multidirectional Memory—as shaped by current events just as it was shaped by the politics of its time.

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