This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive … directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK companies over 2002-2008. Our findings suggest a … positive relationship between the presence of these non-executive directors and the accounting performance of the appointing …

This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish … companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the boards of directors was 12 percent in … board of directors tend to have significantly fewer other non-staff board members. We find clear evidence of a tokenism …

dataset on executives and outside directors of corporations listed on the Paris stock exchange over the 1992-2003 period. This … data source is a matched employer employee dataset providing both detailed information on directors/CEOs and information on … directors. Networks of former high ranking civil servants are the most active in shaping board composition. Our identification …

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock …. Overall our findings suggest that the characteristics of the Italian economy deeply affect the turnover of directors and have …

evolution of boards of directors, such as the declining participation of insider directors and the increasing participation of … foreign and female directors. It also shows that board characteristics are linked to company performance (the market …-to-book ratio, Tobin's Q, ROE and ROA), suggesting that boards of directors play a non-trivial role in corporate governance in …

effects are particularly pronounced when firms appoint several women directors, which is consistent with the critical mass …

institution drivers of the prevalence of women directors on supervisory and management boards in both public and private firms … women remain rare in both boards of firms in Europe: approximately 70% have no women directors on their supervisory boards …, and 60% have no women directors on management boards. We leverage institutional and resource dependency theoretical …