Does mandatory gender balance work? Changing organizational form to avoid board upheaval

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 28, Issue , 2014, Pages 152-168

  Bøhren, Øyvind ^a   Staubo, Siv ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Boards; Corporate governance; G30; G38; Gender quota; Organizational form; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908344418     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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