Board members and management consultants : redefining the boundaries of consulting and corporate governance

Preface, Anthony F. Buono. Introduction, Pierre-Yves Gomez and Rickie Moore. PART I: THE NEW EXPERTS: RISING EXPECTATIONS TOWARDS DIRECTORS. Behind the Boardroom Doors: Changes Underway in U.S. Corporate Governance Post Sarbanes-Oxley, David Finegold and Edward Lawler, III. The Increasing Role Professional Service Firms Play in the Reform of Shareholders' Meetings, Jose Luis Alvarez and Joan E. Ricart. Why Don't More Investor Representatives Sit on Boards of Publicly Traded Companies? Harry Korine. PART II: DEFINING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE NEW EXPERTISE. How Can Corporate Directors Better Protect Themselves?: Lessons From Litigation In the United States, Xavier de Sarrau and Thierry Tomasi. Bounding the Role of the Director, Gavin J. Nicholson, Geoffrey C. Kiel, and Kevin P. Hendry. Expectations of a Consultant in Corporate Governance, David Risser. PART III: "SUPER" MANAGER OR "SUPER" CONSULTANT? THEORIZING THE ROLE OF THE DIRECTOR. Knowledge and Accountability: Outside Director's Contribution in the Corporate Value Chain, Morten Huse, Jonas Gabrielsson, and Alessandro Minchilli. The Question of Motivation of Nonexecutive Directors, Pierre-Yves Gomez and David Russell. Crowding Out of Trust and its Impacts on Management Consulting, Michael Nippa and Jens Grigoleit. PART IV: A NEW PROFESSION: THE CONTRACT, THE RESPONSIBILITIES, AND THE FUTURE. Enabling or Facilitating Discriminatory Board Practices in Board Appointments: Where Are the Women? Susan Adams. How Sarbanes-Oxley is Transforming Board Rooms and Consulting: Intended Effects and Unintended Consequences, Rickie Moore. About the Authors.