Purpose This paper aims to answer the following research questions: Does Canadian Arts Summit's membership (i.e. Canada’s largest cultural institutions) reflect Canada's diversity? What is state of diversity among leadership roles within institutions when viewed through a geographical, gender and racial diversity, intersectional lens? Design/methodology/approach Employing geographic, gender, le...

We link genetic diversity in the country of origin of the firms’ board members with corporate performance via board members’ nationality. We hypothesize that our approach captures deep-rooted differences in cultural, institutional, social, psychological, physiological, and other traits that cannot be captured by other recently measured indices of diversity. Using a panel of firms listed in the ...

The main aim of this empirical paper is to examine the impact board size and gender diversity on firm value 354 non-financial firms listed Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). vital importance shed light presence female directors boards in GCC. This applied several estimation techniques such as ordinary least squares (OLS) panel regression (fixed & random effect) a dataset that extracted from Re...

Abstract The objective of this study is to look at how board size, gender diversity, independent commissioners, leverage, and firm size affect performance in manufacturing companies Indonesia Stock Exchange the Philippines Exchange. This used a quantitative approach with two least square regression analysis models sample sector listed on Exchange, total 100 business entities 480 observations. p...

This study investigates the novel question of whether employee representation on boards directors has a positive effect gender diversity boards, and possible interaction effects with quotas. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway Germany, which contain unique information director represents shareholders or employees during period around 2008, when Norwegia...