The urge of flawless and efficient board to create corporate excellence through corporate governance, policies and provisions countries across the world are moving towards diverse boards, especially gender diverse boards. Recognizing the limitations of traditional board composition this study...

Corporate board gender diversity has been canvassed for two reasons – business benefits and gender equality. The most convincing reason for board gender diversity to yield better results seems to be that diverse boards are more effective monitors of management. In other words, the corporate...

The inconclusive studies on ownership pattern and its effect on profitability of firms make it compulsory to learn about the impact of women directors’ ownership on the performance of Indian firms. Studies have been conducted on the mechanism by which the ownership structure is formed and is...

Prior research on the impact of mandatory quotas in one dimension of diversity, on other dimensions, shows contradictory results. We seek to resolve this puzzle by relying on theory in social psychology on homophily and recategorization processes in hiring. In the context of a law mandating a...