Women on boards: The superheroes of tomorrow?

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 371-386

  Adams, Renée B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ABFER ^*  (Australia)

^c European Corporate Governance Institute   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Boards of directors; Business case; Causal inference; Gender; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959203751     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.11.001     Document Type: Article

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