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Corporate Board: Theory & Practices

Description and contents of the book

Section One: Introduction and Overview

Section Two: Theoretical perspectives underlying corporate governance. In this section authors are thinking of a discussion on notions such as resource dependence theory, institutional theory etc. It was also in this section that authors were thinking that a discussion of monistic, dualistic and pluralistic forms of corporate governance would also be discussed.

Section Three: Factors influencing the development of different corporate governance systems such as culture, political system etc.

Section Four: Review of corporate governance system and practices. Key nations and regions from around the world:

United States
United Kingdom
Eastern Europe (Ukraine and Russia)
Western Europe (France, Germany and Italy)
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland)
Mediterranean and Middle East (Greece and UAE/Bahrain/Oman)
South-East Asia (Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand)
North-Asia (e.g., Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong)
Australia
South Africa

In this section we think to outline the corporate governance features at a national level before focusing on a firm level on the issues as you list:

- board roles;
- board size;
- board composition;
- board committees;
- director independence;
- director nomination and election;
- director remuneration;
- meetings of the board;
- the chairman/CEO duality.

Section Five: Comparative analysis of the corporate governance practices in the nations discussed in Section 4 to complete the task as we wrote:
"We would aspire to classify all above board practices in the spectrum from the most effective to the least effective (for example - the highest effective board committees practices are in.... (USA), the weakest - ..... (Germany). As a result of valuation of all board practices in all researched countries we will do our utmost to conclude on what concept of corporate governance is the most appropriate for developing the best board practices. This could be very strong contribution to the development of the theory and practice of corporate governance worldwide".

Section 6: Summary

Key dates

- Development of the concept of project – January – April 2006
- Clarifying the contents – April – May 2006
- Establishing the team of participants – May 2006
- Preparing the first draft of the book – March 2007
- Preparing the final draft – May 2007
- Printing the book – Summer 2007

The team of participants

Virtus Interpress representatives

Dr. Alexander Kostyuk	Victoria Koverga

International Participants

Dr. Rodolfo Apreda

Corporate Finance Chair and Director of the Center for the Study of Private and Public Governance
E-mail address: ra@cema.edu.ar
Phone number: (54-11) 6314-3000
Fax number: (54-11) 4314-1654

Professor Rodolfo Apreda holds a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Buenos Aires,1998), a Master Degree in Political Science (UCEMA, 2006),and both Licenciate Diplomas in Economics (University of Buenos Aires, 1983) and Mathematics (Caece University, 1978). He currently teaches courses in the Master and Ph D. Programs at the University of Cema, mainly in Capital Markets, Financial Assets Valuation and Corporate Governance.

In June 2000, he was appointed as Visiting Fellow at the Salomon Center of the Stern School of Business, New York University, where he did research in January-March 2001. In July 2001, Dr. Apreda was appointed as Visiting Scholar at the Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware, where he did research in December-March 2002.

His main fields of interest are the following: Corporate and Public Governance, Asymmetric Information, and Transactional Algebras.

Dr. Apreda has been presenting papers for the last years in international congresses held by the Eastern Finance Association, USA, (1998, 1999, 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 and 2006); the Midwest Finance Association, USA(2001 and 2004); the Missouri Economic Association, USA (2001); the Australian Financial Management Association (1998, 2000); the University of Sheffield, UK, (1999); the Argentine Economic Association (1997,1998, 2000); the Latin American Economic Associations(1999). He also served, in some of them, as discussant and Chair Session.

Professor Apreda regularly contributes to learned journals. His last papers were published by the Journal of Multinational Finance Management, the Journal of Applied Economics, Corporate Ownership and Control, Portfolio Management and Financial Innovation, and Corporate Governance: International Review. He wrote nine books in Financial Economics and Corporate Governance issues. His last book in Spanish was published by La Ley in 2005 (Capital Markets, Portfolio Management and Corporate Governance), and his first book in English is forthcoming in the first quarter 2006 (Transactional Algebras, Differential Rates and Residual Information Sets, Nova Publishers, New York).

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Mitchell Van der Zahn

Associate Professor of Accounting
PhD (Murdoch)
B Comm (Hons)

School of Accountancy
60 Stamford Road
#60-04-020
Singapore 178900

Email: mitchellw@smu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65) 6828 0609
Fax: (+65) 6828 0600 

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Dr Dimitrios Koufopoulos
Postgraduate Director of Studies (Business & Management)
Brunel University
Email: Dimitrios.Koufopoulos@brunel.ac.uk

Dimitrios holds a B.Sc. degree in Business Administration from the Athens University of Business and Economics and an MBA and PhD degree from Cardiff University. He is Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants, Member of the Chartered Institute of Management and Academic Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

He started his professional career as an accountant in a well-known fashion retail chain in Greece where he became involved in projects related to the firm’s expansion program and to the redesigning of the company’s administrative structures and procedures.

He then joined the Cardiff Business School as a Researcher and Lecturer specializing in strategic management, strategy development and corporate strategies and in 2002 he moved to Brunel University. He is currently Postgraduate Director of Programs in Business & Management.

He has taught as visiting Lecturer in both British and American institutions. He regularly presents papers at major international and national conferences and his work has appeared in the Long Range Planning, Strategic Change, Journal of Financial Services Marketing, European Business Journal, Management Decision, Corporate Board and Corporate Ownership and Control.

He has been appointed to the Corporate Affairs Committee at the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in September 2004. For more information regarding the Institute's activities follow the link: www.managers.org.uk. He is Member of the editorial Board of the academic Journal Corporate Board: role, duties & composition (www.virtusinterpress.com). He is also Managing Partner of the Gnosis Management Consultants (www.gnosisconsultants.com), and an external, independent Board member of the PROGNOSIS SA Market Research, Public Opinion and Behavioral Social Studies. He is also Head of the Management Research unit at the (ATINER), Athens Institute of Education and Research, (www.atiner.gr/docs/Koufopoulos.doc).

His main research and academic interests are concerned with: Strategic Planning Systems/Processes, Chief Executive Officers, Corporate Governance/Board of Directors, Top Management Groups, Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances, Headquarters-Subsidiary relationships, as well as epistemological issues on theory testing and development.

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Prof. Dr.
Hagen Lindstädt

Institutsleitung

Institut für Angewandte Betriebswirtschaftslehre
und Unternehmensführung
Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Geb. 01.96
Waldhornstr. 27
D-76131 Karlsruhe

Telefon:

+49 721 608 - 3431
Telefax:

+49 721 608 - 6046
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Andrea Melis

Associate Professor
Room 30
Tel. +39-0706753328
Fax. +39-0706753321
E-Mail: melisa@unica.it

Present position:
Associate Professor in Accounting and Business economics at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Member of the Department of Ricerche aziendali.

Academic qualifications:
BA Hons in Business administration (Summa cum Laude) - University of Cagliari (Italy) 1997; Diploma in Auditing – University of Cagliari (Italy), 1997; MA in Strategic management - University of Nottingham (UK) 1998; PhD in Accounting and Business administration –  University of Rome III (Italy) 2001.

Visiting positions:
2001 March-May: Visiting scholar at the Department of Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl., U.S.A;
2001 June-July: Visiting scholar at the Centre of Corporate Governance Research, Department of Accounting and Finance, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, U.K.

Editorial and Journal Refereeing activities
Editorial Board member of “Corporate Ownership and Control”.
Referee for: Corporate Governance – An International Review, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.

Other activities
Member of the Italian Academy of Accounting and Business economics (AIDEA)
Member of the Italian Society of Accounting History.
Member of the Doctoral committee of the Accounting and business economics programme at the University of Rome III.
Member of the University of Cagliari council for teaching improvements.

Languages
Italian (native), English (fluent), Spanish (good).