PurposeThis paper aims to examine the relation between CEO board membership and firm performance.Design/methodology/approachThis paper investigates the relationship between firm performance and CEO board membership, applying two-stage least squares, propensity score matching and correcting for...

PurposeNew Zealand reintroduced titular honours (i.e. knighthoods and damehoods) in 2009. We document the prevalence of knights and dames on the board of directors.Design/methodology/approachWe use a probit regression to investigate what firm characteristics are significantly associated with...

Conventional wisdom suggests that CEO membership of the compensation committee is an open invitation to rent extraction by self-serving executives. However, using data from New Zealand – where CEO compensation committee membership was rel- atively common until quite recently – we find that...

This study examines the influence of women’s board representation on the proportion of women senior managers in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1999 to 2019. We take a multi-theoretic approach, drawing on the trickle-down effect, critical mass theory, and agency theory, to explore several aspects...