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More women on boards : an international perspective /

"In seeking to answer these questions, the authors summarize previously existing research and share the results of their own recent qualitative and quantitative research studies conducted in many different countries. Both 'fix the woman' and 'fix the society' challenges and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Devnew, Lynne (Lynne E.) (Editor ), Le Ber, Marlene (Marlene Janzen) (Editor ), Torchia, Mariateresa (Editor ), Burke, Ronald J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2018]
Colección:Women and leadership (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Do women on boards create value for the organization?: a review of the literature / Emmanuel Zenou
  • The business utility case for women on boards: going beyond the surface / Morten Huse
  • Group level androgyny: one way for boards of directors to navigate the paradoxes in complex decision-making? / Danielle Mercer, Catherine Loughlin, and Kara A. Arnold
  • Mimetic isomorphism of board gender diversity in the world / Amalia Carrasco and Claude Francoeur
  • Directors' discursive resistance to gender board quota: the Belgian case / Hannelore Roos and Patrizia Zanoni
  • Why are there so few women on boards' voices from the boardroom in the United States / Vasilia Vasiliou and Susan M. Adams
  • Chinese women's representation on corporate boards of directors and institutional interventions / Zhi Luan
  • Women board directors: Africa on the rise / Rosemary M. Muriungi
  • Those who serve and those who aspire to serve: looking back, looking ahead / Siri Terjesen, Heather Foust-Cummings, and Lauren Trombetta
  • Women's pathway to the boardroom: the intermediary role of executive search firms / Tanja Reimer
  • Preparing women for corporate boards in the biotechnology industry / Lynn Johnson Langer, Carolyn Brougham, and Dawn Hocevar
  • Analysis of the perceived role and value of women's support networks in helping women gain a board position / Ruth Sacks and Fatima Maatwk
  • Nonprofit board membership: benefits for women's career and leadership development / Wendy M. Murphy and Danna Greenberg
  • Using power and influence to create gender diverse boardrooms: the role of public policy / Vicki W. Kramer and Seletha R. Butler
  • When women lead: cultivating diversity from the top / Malli Gero and Evelyn Garrity
  • The adaptive gender: female CEOs, board context, and the completion of M & As in the U.S. food industry / Gerwin van der Laan, Katrin Muehlfeld, and Anna Salomons
  • Women directors' perceptions of their contributions on boards: an exploratory study from India / Vasanthi Srinivasan and Rejie George
  • Leadership in governance: women board chairs / Monique Cikaliuk, Ljiljana Erakovic̆, Brad Jackson, Chris Noonan, and Susan Watson.