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We Will Need to Check That’: Centralization and Control in the Boardroom during Crisis

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Boards Under Crisis

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Most of us tend to control all that happens in our surroundings; this is second nature for human beings (Conner, 1992). One may argue that this is exactly one of the reasons why we have been able to survive for so long across evolution in front of much larger, faster and stronger predators.

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© 2014 Alberto Lavîn Fernández and Carmelo Mazza

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Fernández, A.L., Mazza, C. (2014). ‘We Will Need to Check That’: Centralization and Control in the Boardroom during Crisis. In: Boards Under Crisis. IE Business Publishing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379221_4

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