Is there a “business case” for board diversity?

Pacific Accounting Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 88-103

  Wang, Yi ^a   Clift, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Boards of directors; Company performance; Diversity management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884386102     PISSN: 01140582     EISSN: 20415494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01140580911002044     Document Type: Article

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