Do women still lack the 'right' kind of human capital for directorships on the FTSE 100 corporate boards

Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: International Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 152-164

  Terjesen, Siri ^a,b   Singh, Val ^c   Vinnicombe, Susan ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Archaeology   (Germany)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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