Women on German management boards: How ownership structure affects management board diversity

Managing Diversity in Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 95-125

  Oehmichen, Jana ^a   Rapp, Marc Steffen ^b   Wolff, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Gender; Management board; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027326740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-8349-3869-5_6     Document Type: Chapter

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