Handbook of Top Management Teams [Hardcover]

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.INTRODUCTION:A Journey to the heart of top management teams A: Who Are The Top Managers? MANAGEMENT TEAMS 1. Top management teams Donald C. Hambrick 2. Profiles of the Top Executives of CAC 40 Companies J?r?me Baray, Frank Bournois 3. Diversity and Top Management Teams Susan Schneider 4. Performance of Top Management teams: the dynamics of electives affinities Lionel Prud'homme 5. Company cultures and chief executives Maurice Th?venet 6. Managing strategic contradictions Wendy K. Smith, Michael L. Tushman 7. Learning in executive teams and replacing the chief executive Quentin Lefebvre TOP MANAGERS' NETWORKS 8. Company executives a possible new social group Bernard Galambaud 9. The HRM-MD Double act Frank Bournois and Catherine Voynnet-Fourboul 10. The entourage of the Top executive definition and functions Tessa Melkonian and Frank Bournois 11. Strategic human resource Management of Top Management Team Social Networks: controlling executive relationships for enhanced organizational advantage Kevin D. Clark, Christophe J. Collins CAREERS AND MOTIVATIONS OF AN ELITE 12. The internal career orientations of executives Brooklyn C. Derr 13. Career anchors for leaders Edgar H. Schein 14. Career management practices Yehuda Baruch 15. The path of the top executive Muriel P?nicaud 16. Senior executive compensation in France principles and practice Christiane Alcouffe 17. Leaders pay Shaun Tyson 18. The shadow side of leadership Manfred Kets de Vries  Katharina Balazs 19. Top Executives  Stressed and causers of stress Sylvie Roussillon and J?r?me Duval-Hamel 20. Management of health assets: Are Top executives up to it? Frank Bournois and Sylvie Roussillon 21. Stl#d