We find that investors responded positively to a mandated gender quota in Korea, which requires large public firms to include at least one female director on their boards. Investor responses were more positive for firms with high risk, weak corporate governance, and poor social performance,...

Increasingly, studies of entrepreneurship and migration have examined the role of immigrant entrepreneurs in revitalizing and diversifying the economy of the host society. Further, recent transnational skilled entrepreneurs have been understood as being much more mobile in building international...

This study investigates whether the presence of women at senior management level improves gender equality environment in South Korea. I find strong empirical evidence that when the proportion of female senior managers is large, the gender gap in terms of salary and employment rate for full time...

1. Introduction -- 2. The world of Korean women today -- 3. The many faces of Korean women managers -- 4. History as precursor -- 5. Women managers' stories -- 6. Growing up Korean : girls' lives in Korea -- 7. Corporate culture in Korea -- 8. Korean women and Korean organizational culture -- 9....