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We examine how boardroom gender diversity reforms impact the monitoring role of institutional investors. Using reforms from 25 countries that aim to improve gender diversity on boards, we find that the reforms increase the association between institutional ownership and subsequent female...
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staunchly opposed to any such incursions into their governance regimes. On the other side of the world, the issue of women in … world …
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shareholders. Corporate Governance and CSR are significant issues in all parts of the world, huge amounts of time and energy are … concerns of people in different parts of the world. Therefore, by using a wealth of case studies, theoretical models, and … drawing on the knowledge and perspective of experts from around the world, the editors have produced this valuable book …
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We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...
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Following the corporate governance scandals such as Enron, WorldCom, and Vivendi, the special attention has been attached to the board composition, and different dimensions related to board diversity has been discussed in this context. Recently, the interest in the board of directors' diversity...
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The purpose of this study is to examine and compare how CSR is perceived by Transnational & Multinational corporations through globally as well as in Bangladesh. The study additionally describes and provide an explanation for the challenges that each corporation could face and the...
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world. We contrast three broad views on CSR: (1) it is a response to government failures; (2) it reflects individual and …
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In 2002, thirty-four chief executives of the world’s largest multinational corporations signed a document during the … World Economic Forum (WEF) entitled, ‘Global Corporate Citizenship: The Leadership Challenge for CEOs and Boards’. These …
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