SME Heterogeneity and board configurations: An empirical typology

Lotfi Karoui (1) , Wafa Khlif (2) , Coral Ingley (3)

1 Métis Lab EM Normandie
2 Toulouse Business School
3 AUT - Auckland University of Technology

This paper models French private SME board configurations, and indicates that both organisational and board design need to be adjusted to align with the differentiation between the ownership and the management, and between the ownership and the directorship.

Keywords: SME diversity; Board task portfolios; Board configurations; Proximity

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Business administration

Lotfi Karoui, Wafa Khlif, Coral Ingley. SME Heterogeneity and board configurations: An empirical typology. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2017, 24 (3), pp.545-561. ⟨10.1108/JSBED-12-2016-0197⟩. ⟨hal-01991307⟩