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Identification of Influence Mechanisms of Executive/non-executive Board Composition on Board’s Attribution Style

Helaly, Hamed | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 47525 (44)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Management and Economics
  6. Advisor(s): Alavi, Babak
  7. Abstract:
  8. The influence mechanisms of executive/non-executive board compostion on board’s attribution style have been explored. In two case studies, I have examined boards’ causal interpretation about a critical incident which had a significant impact on firm performance. A qualitative research approach has been taken in the case studies. Data was gathered through semi-structured interviews with all board members and was analyzied with the theme analysis method. According to the results, board of directors’ collective attribution formation process can be devided into three stages of members’ expression of information and facts at board meetings, forming the individual judgements of members and at last, agreement on the collectively admitted attribution. Direction of attribution in each of these steps are moderated or mediated by some constructs which are affected by executive/non-executive composition of the board. We found that individual attribution judgements are directed by members’ perceived scope of control. We have shown that this perceived scope of control may differ systematically in executive and non-executive members. Also, executive members’ motivational attribution is stimulated by non-executives’ internal attribution. Record of non-executives’ experience in the industry of the firm affects not only the non-executives’ information expression about the external environment but also these members’ perceived scope of control. At the stage of agreement on a collective attribution, board members’ referent power determines the weight of their judgments in the collective attribution. Specifically, founders in the board have more power in the board compared with other members
  9. Keywords:
  10. Corporate Governance ; Collective Cognition ; Board Composition Structure ; Organizational Learning ; Attribution Theory

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