Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Problems of Public Ownership -- Chapter Two. Controversy Over the Board of Directors -- Chapter Three. Some Existing Practices -- Chapter Four. Fresh Research in Britain and Israel -- Chapter Five. Board Members' Goal Orientations -- Chapter Six. Board Members' Attitudes Toward Governmental Control -- Chapter Seven. Board Members Perceptions of the Functions of the Board -- Chapter Eight. Role-Stress Among the Chief Executives -- Chapter Nine. Implications of the Research Findings -- Chapter Ten. Different Boards for Differing Situations -- Appendix A. Corporations included in the sample -- Appendix B. The interview schedule -- Appendix C. The questionnaire for measuring role-stress (Means and standard deviations for each item) -- Appendix D. Technical note on the content analysis -- Appendix E. Method for the clustering of responses concerning the appropriate loci of decision/approval -- Appendix F. The clustering of responses on appropriate locus of decision (percentages) -- Appendix G. The clustering of responses on appropriate locus of approval (percentages) -- Appendix H. The measurement of conflicting expectations -- Appendix I. The indices of role-stress -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter