Legitimacy profiles of women directors on top french company boards

Journal of Management Development

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 803-820

  Singh, Val ^a   Point, Sebastien ^b   Moulin, Yves ^b   Davila, Andrès ^c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ecole de Management de Strasbourg   (France)

^c OMNES Education   (France)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; France; Gender; Human capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941646609     PISSN: 02621711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JMD-10-2013-0129     Document Type: Article

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