If We Build It They Will Come: The Role of Governance in Expansion Decisions at Crandall University

Name: If We Build It They Will Come: The Role of Governance in Expansion Decisions at Crandall University (English version)
SKU: NAC0397

Robert MacDonald; Heather Steeves

Product #:NAC0397

Supplier:North American Case Research Association

Discipline:Strategy

Details:Case (PDF) • 26 pages • 2016-01-01

Subjects:

Boards Business education Capital investments Nonprofit organizations Organizational values Strategy formulation Corporate governance Business and society Investment management Society and business relations Organizational culture Strategy Strategy

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During the first decade of the 21st Century Crandall University, a private Christian liberal arts university in Moncton, NB, Canada experienced significant growth in terms of enrolment and governance structure. If We Build It They Will Come: The Role of Governance in Expansion Decisions at Crandall University examines the dilemma faced by one member of the University's Board of Governors as he seeks to determine how to deal with decisions made by the Board that he believes are not in keeping with the requirements of sound policy governance. The narrative traces the history of the adoption of the Carver model at the University, and examines the role played by the Board in a critical capital expansion decision in 2010. The reader is invited to consider the roles and responsibilities of board members both corporately and individually, and to evaluate the difference between fulfilling the mandate to govern and meddling in the affairs of management.

Learning Objectives

Analyzing the appropriateness of the actions of a board as agent using agency theory; identifying similarities and differences in governance processes in profit and non-profit organizations; analyzing the appropriateness of the actions of a single board member using the Carver model of governance; understanding and applying Kiel and Nicholson's four categories of governance failure; developing criteria and recommending actions consistent with the stated goals of the organization.