Professionalising board support - the global trend

摘要

Where there are boards you wourld expect to find board secretaries-the individuals or departments responsible for ensuring that the board meets regularly and is properly informed. In Hong Kong this work is carried out by the company secretary, but elsewhere the individuals performing board support work do not always go under this name. As Professor Chen's article explains, in Taiwan the board support team is referred to in legislation as the 'agenda working group' and in most companies the finance department or the CEO's clerk or the general administrative department are responsible for the board support function.