Women on Corporate Boards

Women on Boards and Corporate Social Responsibility

A growing body of research suggests that having more women in the boardroom leads to better corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. However, much of this work views the CSR-enhancing effect of women directors as largely driven by their moral orientations and rarely considers other underlying mechanisms. Moreover, less explored are the firm-specific conditions under which such CSR-pro...

Stalled: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards

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Consensus, Control and Corporate Boards∗

We investigate properties of shareholder-value maximizing corporate boards in situations where both the management and the board have expertise (or private information) relevant for the decision facing the corporation. We suppose that the board cannot directly monitor management in a way that eliminates distortions arising out of managerial agency. This creates a trade-off between improving inf...

Medical research oversight from the corporate governance perspective: comparing institutional review boards and corporate boards.

The Global Landscape of Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards

There has been an acceleration in the adoption of gender quotas on boards since Norway pioneered legislation in 2003. Countries that have made parallel reforms have primarily been in the western European bloc, while other countries have displayed strong resistance to this measure. The reasons underlying support and resistance have been argued across the globe, and their consistent application r...