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Handbook of top management teams / edited by Frank Bournois ... [et al.] ; foreword by Donald C. Hambrick.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: xxxix, 710 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; casedISBN:
  • 9780230218598
  • 0230218598
  • 9780230218598:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.42
Contents:
[PART 1: Who are the top managers?] Top management teams / Donald C. Hambrick -- Profiles of the Top Executives of CAC 40 Companies / Jérôme Baray & Frank Bournois -- Diversity and Top Management Teams / Susan Schneider -- Performance of Top Management teams: the dynamics of electives affinities / Lionel Prud'homme -- Company cultures and chief executives / Maurice Thévenet -- Managing strategic contradictions / Wendy K. Smith & Michael L. Tushman -- Learning in executive teams and replacing the chief executive / Quentin Lefebvre.
[PART 2: Top managers networks] Company executives a possible new social group / Bernard Galambaud -- The HRM-MD Double act / Frank Bournois & Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul -- The entourage of the Top executive definition and functions / Tessa Melkonian and Frank Bournois -- Strategic human resource Management of Top Management Team Social Networks: controlling executive relationships for enhanced organizational advantage / Kevin D. Clark & Christophe J. Collins.
[PART 3: Careers and motivations of an elite] The internal career orientations of executives / Brooklyn C. Derr -- Career anchors for leaders / Edgar H. Schein -- Career management practices / Yehuda Baruch -- The path of the top executive / Muriel Pénicaud -- Senior executive compensation in France: principles and practice / Christiane Alcouffe -- Leaders pay / Shaun Tyson -- The shadow side of leadership / Manfred Kets de Vries & Katharina Balazs -- Top Executives - Stressed and causers of stress / Sylvie Roussillon & Jérôme Duval-Hamel -- Management of health assets: Are Top executives up to it? / Frank Bournois & Sylvie Roussillon -- Stress takes a toll on leaders / Sharon McDowell-Larsen -- Toxic leadership : a conceptual framework / Jean Lipman-Blumen.
[PART 4: Selection of top executives] Identifying future managers and developing top potential / Sylvie Roussillon & Frank Bournois -- The singular origin of top managers in France / Philippe d'Iribarne -- Background, Identification and training of executives in France and Germany / Frédérique Alexandre-Bailly et al... -- The process of initiation for the future senior executive / Maryse Dubouloy -- Coaching: Learning to be a Top executive / Thierry Chavel -- The role and influence of firm founders / Teresa Nelson -- Company management and institutions: The contribution of neo-institutionalist theories / Isabelle Huault.
[PART 5: Training and competencies] Executive education : a process of continuous development / Jean-Louis Scaringella -- The training of Top Executives / Hervé Borensztejn -- Leadership Development evaluation / Jennifer W. Martineau & Kelly M. Hannum -- Unconventional paradigms in Management: when should top management leave the groove towards non-conformity / Luciano Traquandi -- Emotionally intelligent leadership at the top / Malcom Higgs et al...
[PART 6: Leadership] The Top executive as reducer of violence / Sylvie Roussillon -- The top Executive Martial art: his strategic approach / Daniel Hervouët -- Human Excellence and Governance: The conficius challenge / Sophie Faure & Françoise Tollet -- Stages of leadership development / Alain Gauthier -- The theory of organisations and the CEO / Jacques Rojot -- Leaders self- defeating response to perceived under performance / Jean-François Manzoni & Jean-Louis Barsoux.
[PART 7: Decision-taking process] Advice to top executives: keep an eye on technology / Victoire de Margerie -- Is the executive a strategist? / Frédéric Fréry -- Executive and Decisions / Hervé Laroche -- How boards of directors interact as decision making groups Daniel P. Forbes & Frances J. Milliken.
[PART 8: Communication] Ambiguous relations the journalist and the corporate executive / Pascal Junghans -- Lessons from the dark side of information use the impact on people, values and company performance / Donald A. Marchand -- The Organizational grapevine: lessons for business leaders / Allan J. Kimmel -- Multilingual top management teams / Jane Henderson Kassis -- Elements of narratology for use by top executive / Thierry Boudès -- A bilingual Encyclopedia The translator's challenge / Nicholas Lorriman -- Organisational transformation: moves and rhythms / Patrick Besson -- Facilitating strategic renewal by managing strategic role conflict / Steven W. Floyd & Peter J. Lane -- Developing an entrepreneurial dynamic within large businesses / Olivier Basso -- RSVP: A methodology to ensure the success of organisational transformation projects / Stephan Franz Gellrich -- Top Management and labour relations / Jérôme Duval-Hamel.
[PART 9: Crisis management] Chief Executives and crisis management / Patrick O'Quin -- The Director in crisis situations / Christophe Roux-Dufort -- The influence of governance characteristics on the strategic response to a failed takeover bid / Sayan Chatterjee et al...
[PART 10: Time management] Everyday management of top executives priorities / Carole Druckers-Godard -- Timing and innovation explicit trade offs / Delphine Manceau -- The three time frames in corporate organisation and management / Michelle Bergadaa.
[PART 11: Finance] Planning and budgeting: A new approach for senior management / Olivier Saulpic -- Bounded rationality, sunk costs and industry structure / David G. Hoopes & Douglas R. Johnson.
[PART 12: Internationalisation strategy] Top managers and internationalization decisions / Stefan Schmid -- The role of cultural distance and corporate governance in the decision to expand internationally / Fabrice Roth.
[PART 13: Corporate governance] Corporate Governance / Pierre-Yves Gomez -- The agency theory, CEO entrenchment and corporate governance theories / Alain Finet -- Mapping the corporate governance lanscape / Andrew Kakabadse & Nada K. Kakabadse -- The international convergence of systems of corporate governance / Jérôme Caby.
[PART 14: Specific types of governance] Mitbestimmung in the German corporate governance system / Stefan Schmid -- Corporate governance in Russia : a state of the art / Anatoly Zhuplev & Frédéric Jallat -- Governance of family businesses / Gérard Hirigoyen -- Top management strata and governance in professional services firm:structural and agency challenges / Kevin D. Clark et al... -- The overall management of French state owned companies in question / Franck Brillet & Gilles de la Ménardière.
[PART 15: Relationship with shareholders] Internationalisation of the shareholding of large companies impact on the function of top executives / Franck Bancel -- Executive replacement and shareholder wealth a review of the theoretical litterature / Isabelle Dherment-Ferère -- A user's guide for interpreting the presidential letter to shareholders / Sebastien Point -- Increasing firm value through detection and prevention of white collar crime / Karen Schnatterly -- Ethicists, corporate responsibility and executive action / Yves Medina -- Ethics, cynicism and governance / Jacques Delga & Gilles Van Wijk -- For a managerial ethic / Dom Hugues Minguet.
Summary: "Questions of company governance have been examined over the years, but this has generally been in areas concerning shareholders. Meanwhile the management team and board of directors remain comparatively unexplored. This book has been written to provide a way into this relatively unknown world of executive committees"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

[PART 1: Who are the top managers?] Top management teams / Donald C. Hambrick -- Profiles of the Top Executives of CAC 40 Companies / Jérôme Baray & Frank Bournois -- Diversity and Top Management Teams / Susan Schneider -- Performance of Top Management teams: the dynamics of electives affinities / Lionel Prud'homme -- Company cultures and chief executives / Maurice Thévenet -- Managing strategic contradictions / Wendy K. Smith & Michael L. Tushman -- Learning in executive teams and replacing the chief executive / Quentin Lefebvre.

[PART 2: Top managers networks] Company executives a possible new social group / Bernard Galambaud -- The HRM-MD Double act / Frank Bournois & Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul -- The entourage of the Top executive definition and functions / Tessa Melkonian and Frank Bournois -- Strategic human resource Management of Top Management Team Social Networks: controlling executive relationships for enhanced organizational advantage / Kevin D. Clark & Christophe J. Collins.

[PART 3: Careers and motivations of an elite] The internal career orientations of executives / Brooklyn C. Derr -- Career anchors for leaders / Edgar H. Schein -- Career management practices / Yehuda Baruch -- The path of the top executive / Muriel Pénicaud -- Senior executive compensation in France: principles and practice / Christiane Alcouffe -- Leaders pay / Shaun Tyson -- The shadow side of leadership / Manfred Kets de Vries & Katharina Balazs -- Top Executives - Stressed and causers of stress / Sylvie Roussillon & Jérôme Duval-Hamel -- Management of health assets: Are Top executives up to it? / Frank Bournois & Sylvie Roussillon -- Stress takes a toll on leaders / Sharon McDowell-Larsen -- Toxic leadership : a conceptual framework / Jean Lipman-Blumen.

[PART 4: Selection of top executives] Identifying future managers and developing top potential / Sylvie Roussillon & Frank Bournois -- The singular origin of top managers in France / Philippe d'Iribarne -- Background, Identification and training of executives in France and Germany / Frédérique Alexandre-Bailly et al... -- The process of initiation for the future senior executive / Maryse Dubouloy -- Coaching: Learning to be a Top executive / Thierry Chavel -- The role and influence of firm founders / Teresa Nelson -- Company management and institutions: The contribution of neo-institutionalist theories / Isabelle Huault.

[PART 5: Training and competencies] Executive education : a process of continuous development / Jean-Louis Scaringella -- The training of Top Executives / Hervé Borensztejn -- Leadership Development evaluation / Jennifer W. Martineau & Kelly M. Hannum -- Unconventional paradigms in Management: when should top management leave the groove towards non-conformity / Luciano Traquandi -- Emotionally intelligent leadership at the top / Malcom Higgs et al...

[PART 6: Leadership] The Top executive as reducer of violence / Sylvie Roussillon -- The top Executive Martial art: his strategic approach / Daniel Hervouët -- Human Excellence and Governance: The conficius challenge / Sophie Faure & Françoise Tollet -- Stages of leadership development / Alain Gauthier -- The theory of organisations and the CEO / Jacques Rojot -- Leaders self- defeating response to perceived under performance / Jean-François Manzoni & Jean-Louis Barsoux.

[PART 7: Decision-taking process] Advice to top executives: keep an eye on technology / Victoire de Margerie -- Is the executive a strategist? / Frédéric Fréry -- Executive and Decisions / Hervé Laroche -- How boards of directors interact as decision making groups Daniel P. Forbes & Frances J. Milliken.

[PART 8: Communication] Ambiguous relations the journalist and the corporate executive / Pascal Junghans -- Lessons from the dark side of information use the impact on people, values and company performance / Donald A. Marchand -- The Organizational grapevine: lessons for business leaders / Allan J. Kimmel -- Multilingual top management teams / Jane Henderson Kassis -- Elements of narratology for use by top executive / Thierry Boudès -- A bilingual Encyclopedia The translator's challenge / Nicholas Lorriman -- Organisational transformation: moves and rhythms / Patrick Besson -- Facilitating strategic renewal by managing strategic role conflict / Steven W. Floyd & Peter J. Lane -- Developing an entrepreneurial dynamic within large businesses / Olivier Basso -- RSVP: A methodology to ensure the success of organisational transformation projects / Stephan Franz Gellrich -- Top Management and labour relations / Jérôme Duval-Hamel.

[PART 9: Crisis management] Chief Executives and crisis management / Patrick O'Quin -- The Director in crisis situations / Christophe Roux-Dufort -- The influence of governance characteristics on the strategic response to a failed takeover bid / Sayan Chatterjee et al...

[PART 10: Time management] Everyday management of top executives priorities / Carole Druckers-Godard -- Timing and innovation explicit trade offs / Delphine Manceau -- The three time frames in corporate organisation and management / Michelle Bergadaa.

[PART 11: Finance] Planning and budgeting: A new approach for senior management / Olivier Saulpic -- Bounded rationality, sunk costs and industry structure / David G. Hoopes & Douglas R. Johnson.

[PART 12: Internationalisation strategy] Top managers and internationalization decisions / Stefan Schmid -- The role of cultural distance and corporate governance in the decision to expand internationally / Fabrice Roth.

[PART 13: Corporate governance] Corporate Governance / Pierre-Yves Gomez -- The agency theory, CEO entrenchment and corporate governance theories / Alain Finet -- Mapping the corporate governance lanscape / Andrew Kakabadse & Nada K. Kakabadse -- The international convergence of systems of corporate governance / Jérôme Caby.

[PART 14: Specific types of governance] Mitbestimmung in the German corporate governance system / Stefan Schmid -- Corporate governance in Russia : a state of the art / Anatoly Zhuplev & Frédéric Jallat -- Governance of family businesses / Gérard Hirigoyen -- Top management strata and governance in professional services firm:structural and agency challenges / Kevin D. Clark et al... -- The overall management of French state owned companies in question / Franck Brillet & Gilles de la Ménardière.

[PART 15: Relationship with shareholders] Internationalisation of the shareholding of large companies impact on the function of top executives / Franck Bancel -- Executive replacement and shareholder wealth a review of the theoretical litterature / Isabelle Dherment-Ferère -- A user's guide for interpreting the presidential letter to shareholders / Sebastien Point -- Increasing firm value through detection and prevention of white collar crime / Karen Schnatterly -- Ethicists, corporate responsibility and executive action / Yves Medina -- Ethics, cynicism and governance / Jacques Delga & Gilles Van Wijk -- For a managerial ethic / Dom Hugues Minguet.

"Questions of company governance have been examined over the years, but this has generally been in areas concerning shareholders. Meanwhile the management team and board of directors remain comparatively unexplored. This book has been written to provide a way into this relatively unknown world of executive committees"-- Provided by publisher.

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