Title: Enhancing the effectiveness of the 21st century Board of Directors: Part II
Abstract: Enhancing the Effectiveness of the 21st Century Board of Directors'.We have eight articles herein, including a mixture of academic and practitioner articles, qualitative and quantitative research, gender and geography, the application to emerging and developed economies, new and emerging research by doctoral candidates and their supervisors and subject matter areas.The focus of the first issue, Volume 10 Number 2, May 2013, was on three areas that are critically important to the field of corporate governance at present: the governance of risk management; the governance of executive compensation; and the skills, competencies and behaviours of board chairs and directors.The focus on this second issue will be on four additional and emerging areas in the field of corporate governance: board value creation and leadership; technology literacy and the governance of enterprise technology; relationships between board information and firm value, and between board capital and strategy; and global dimensions of corporate governance, including demographic aspects of Brazilian boards of directors, and behavioural aspects of Irish and Canadian banking boards of directors.