Minority membership on boards of directors: The case for requiring pictures of boards in annual reports

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1019-1033

  Bernardi, Richard A ^a   Bean, David F ^b   Weippert, Kristen M ^a  

^a ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual report pictures; Directors; Diversity; Minority representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 20344400356     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2004.02.009     Document Type: Article

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