We investigate how social capital, captured by the strength of cooperative norms and social networks within a geographical community, affects the internal organization of boards. We find that firms headquartered in high-social-capital communities have a more advisory-focused internal board...

Institutional leaders have long championed interdisciplinary research; however, researchers have paid relatively little attention to the people responding to such calls and their subsequent career outcomes. With the benefit of two large datasets spanning from 1986 through 2016, we show that...