The popular and academic literatures report that women, Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are under-represented on US corporate boards of directors, relative to their incidence in the US labor force. We confirm this observation by tabulating the presence of female and under-represented...

Type: Empirical.Research Question/Issue: This study examines whether the existence of a sustainability committee with independent directors facilitates the requirements of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index to include the company with the leading sustainability companies in the world.Research...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential effects of corporate governance (CG) elements on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure. The annual reports of companies for the year 2007-2011 are examined to analyze the relationship between CG and CSR reporting. It considers...

There are numerous studies on the effectiveness of boards that primarily focus on legal formalities, including gender diversity, board size, remuneration, board evaluation and the role of the chairman of the board. While attempting to design a one-size-fits-all framework, scholars approaching...

Board evaluation can provide a vital tool for directors to review and improve their performance. This will eventually lead to significant value creation opportunities for firms. But is increased regulation and regulatory guidance requiring board evaluation a realistic or sensible move? Is it...

This article aims to analyze under theory of graphs assumptions, small worlds approach, how the configuration of the global network of relations among board members of public companies listed in the Brazilian between 2004 and 2007 evolved. To verify the validity of small world approach, the...

We study the long-term effect of gender quotas in India, the first country with strong patriarchal norms to mandate female directors. Five years after the reform, female director appointments increase from less than 10% to over 20%. Almost half of the firms appoint and retain female directors...