TY - GEN AU - VELTE, PATRICK AU - STIGLBAUER, MARKUS TI - Switching from a managing to a monitoring function on the board: Is a cooling-off period necessary PY - 2012/// KW - EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT N2 - This paper addresses the question whether immediately switching frm a managing to a monitoring function within a board is beneficial for a company or whether it should be regulated by a coolig off period. On the one hand, companies have a mutual economic interest in continuously having a person's experience with in the board by switching him directly from a managing to a monitoring function. On the other hand, a cooling-off period may help to reduce the problem that is encountered when aperson monitors processes and strategies which he himself has formaly developed and implemented ER -