French supervisory board gender composition and quota threat: changes from 2008 to 2010

Gender in Management

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 551-571

  Singh, Val ^a   Point, Sébastien ^b   Moulin, Yves ^c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ecole de Management de Strasbourg   (France)

^c ISAM EM Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

Boards of directors; France; Institutional theory; Quotas; Women directors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941618062     PISSN: 17542413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/GM-07-2015-0065     Document Type: Article

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