Women directors and the 'black box' of board behavior

Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: International Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 140-151

  Huse, Morten ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

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