Women on Corporate Boards: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Business and Society

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1157-1196

  Grosvold, Johanne ^a   Rayton, Bruce ^a   Brammer, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

board demography; corporate board diversity; corporate boards; institutional theory; women on boards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990245007     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 15524205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650315613980     Document Type: Article

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