This paper documents several significant correlations between the variability of stock returns, the structure of director compensation and the gender diversity of corporate boards. In a crosssectional sample of boards of directors of 1024 publicly traded firms in fiscal year 1998, we find three robust results: (1) firms facing more variability in their stock returns have fewer women on their bo...

Many corporations reward their outside directors with a modest fee for each board meeting they attend. Using a large panel data set on director attendance behavior in publicly-listed firms for the period 1996–2003, we provide robust evidence that directors are less likely to have attendance problems at board meetings when board meeting fees are higher. This is surprising since meeting fees, on ...

This study investigates the impact of women directors on a firm’s sustainable growth rate. Using data from 2003 to 2017 for Chinese listed firms, we found positive relationship between and Our also contributes institutional theory by providing evidence that this is more effective in legal-person-controlled firms than state-controlled firms. In comparison, independent have stronger influence exe...

We study the networks formed by the directors of the most important Swiss boards and the boards themselves for the year 2009. The networks are obtained by projection from the original bipartite graph. We highlight a number of important statistical features of those networks such as degree distribution, weight distribution, and several centrality measures as well as their interrelationships. Whi...

Ever since the Y2K scare, boards have grown increasingly nervous about corporate dependence on information technology. Since then, computer crashes, denial of service attacks, competitive pressures, and the need to automate compliance with government regulations have heightened board sensitivity to IT risk. Unfortunately, most boards remain largely in the dark when it comes to IT spending and s...

Pooling resources, knowledge and technologies is a necessity in the health sector. Many hospitals do so through alliances with compatible establishments, which have been studied from the organizational perspective for many years. However, many alliances are reported to fail and the conditions which could foster their success are still not well known. The aim of this exploratory study was to ide...

We appreciate the helpful commerrts and suggestions of Janic» Beyer, Daniei Brass. Linda Johanson, E)awd Kang, Timothy Pollock, Wiiiiam Swann. D ^ n e Taras, Edward Zajac, and three arronymous ASQ reviewers. We atso thank /^na Maria Peredo and Douglas Vickerson for their lebrary research support. This study examines how the influence of directors who are demographic minorities on corporate boar...

This study aims to explain the effect of Board Directors Narcissism on Financial Reporting Quality; Bonus Scheme Quality Reporting; and The Effect CEO Duality Quality. research method is quantitative causal type which asymmetric. locations are all state-owned companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2017-2020 period. technique collecting data through surveys secondary IDX official website ...

Director tenure attracts attention worldwide and is increasingly being recognised as a crucial element in assessing an external (independent non-executive) director’s independence. has recently come under the spotlight South Africa. Shareholder activists are expressing disapproval of lengthy tenures directors serving on boards listed public companies exerting pressure long-serving to resign fro...