The expertise being referred to in this proposition is essentially business experience.
Board members who have experience of managing organisations that reward profit
margin rather than social impact will tend to be useful in strategic decision-making
about how best to use the assets of the organisation. There may well be some
resistance to this notion of candidates for boards being judged on their commercial
abilities, with some stakeholders likely to cast it as anti-democratic (Low and Cowton,
2004). However, the counter-argument to this is that too much influence by
representatives whose preoccupation is social rather than financial could result in the
company turning away contracts that could offer financial sustainability