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...

This study aims to explore the crucial question whether the presence of female directors on the compensation committees limits the CEO excessive compensation in China or not? To draw the inferences, we use the data of Chinese listed firms for the year 2006 to 2015 and estimate ordinary least...

Although we can observe noticeable progress in gender diversity on corporate boards, these boards remain far from gender balanced. Our paper builds on social identity theory to examine the impact of corporate elites—men and women who sit on multiple corporate boards—on board diversity. We...