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Will You Be on Our Board of Directors? We Need Help

2012; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 89; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1077699011432363

2161-430X

Charlene Simmons,

Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

Over the last two decades, media companies have faced profound environmental changes, including corporate consolidation and media convergence. Research in other industries has shown that corporations facing environmental changes often respond by altering the composition of their board of directors. This article, using a twenty-year longitudinal study of seventeen corporations, found that to some degree, media companies use their boards to gain access to resources, including financial capital and industry knowledge, to deal with environmental change.