Women and employee-elected board members, and their contributions to board control tasks

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 581-597

  Huse, Morten ^a,b   Nielsen, Sabina Tacheva ^c   Hagen, Inger Marie ^d  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^d FAFO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Board control tasks; Boards of directors; Corporate social responsibility; Creative discussions; Employee elected directors; Esteem; Women directors

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953700226     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-0018-4     Document Type: Article

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