Vlerick Leuven Gent Working Paper Series 2007/03 ... - Vlerick Public
Vlerick Leuven Gent Working Paper Series 2007/03 ... - Vlerick Public
Vlerick Leuven Gent Working Paper Series 2007/03 ... - Vlerick Public
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND BOARD EFFECTIVENESS : BEYOND<br />
FORMALISM<br />
ABIGAIL LEVRAU<br />
<strong>Vlerick</strong> <strong>Leuven</strong> <strong>Gent</strong> Management School<br />
LUTGART VAN DEN BERGHE<br />
<strong>Vlerick</strong> <strong>Leuven</strong> <strong>Gent</strong> Management School<br />
This paper was presented at<br />
• The EABIS PhD Workshop, <strong>Vlerick</strong> <strong>Leuven</strong> <strong>Gent</strong> Management School, 29 September<br />
2004<br />
• The 7 th International Conference on Corporate Governance and Direction, Henley<br />
Management College, 11-13 October 2004, England<br />
• The European Academy of Management (EURAM) annual conference, track ‘Corporate<br />
Governance and Board of Directors’, 16-20 May 2006, Oslo, Norway.<br />
We wish to thank Prof. dr. Kurt Verweire and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful<br />
comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. We express our gratitude to the participants of<br />
the various conferences this paper was presented at. Their feedback was of added-value for<br />
improving our own insights. Finally, this research was made possible by the support of the<br />
Belgian Governance Institute and, in particular, by its member network.<br />
Contact:<br />
Abigail Levrau<br />
<strong>Vlerick</strong> <strong>Leuven</strong> <strong>Gent</strong> Management School<br />
Tel: +32 09 210 98 93<br />
Fax: +32 09 210 97 00<br />
Email: Abigail.Levrau@vlerick.be<br />
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