This Article describes the results from fifty-seven interviews with corporate directors and a limited number of other persons (including institutional investors, search firm personnel, and the like) regarding their views on corporate board diversity. It highlights numerous tensions in these...

New Zealand has the reputation as a pioneering nation in policy reform- it was the first to introduce a comprehensive no fault based system for accident compensation, it had an early form of the welfare state, it embraced the economic reforms of the 1980s, and it was the first country to allow...

We study the impact of a principles-based (i.e., comply or explain) approach to female representation on corporate boards. In contrast to the existing evidence on mandatory diversity regulation, we find that those firms most likely to be affected by this principles-based regulation exhibit...

With the thought that new perspectives often can be helpful in addressing long-standing unresolved questions, this article approaches an analysis of women's roles on corporate boards of directors from the standpoint of crowd theory. Crowd theory — in reality, a group of theories — explains...

The study aims to evaluate the impact of board traits on the organizations' dividend pay-outratio. For the purpose, quantitative research approach was being utilized. The data of non-financial companies, listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange, was scrutinized over a period of seven years, 2012-2019....