ABSTRACT Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: How and to what extent
does national culture influence the composition and leadership structure of the boards of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to show that corporate governance structures differ
significantly across countries. Using agency theory and institutional theory, it examines how …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between national culture and best
practices as recommended in country-level corporate governance codes …

This study extends research on the board nationality and gender diversity to a new,
unchartered, methodological territory of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). QCA is …

For a sample of 210 Swiss publicly listed firms we analyse the characteristics of all 1678
directors in the year 2003 in order to investigate how board members' nationality and gender …

ABSTRACT Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: Using insights from the
upper echelon perspective and agency theory, this paper examines the effects of TMT …

ABSTRACT Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question: In this study, the level of
nationality diversity of a corporate board is seen as directly dependent on the governance …

The board of directors is one of a number of internal governance mechanisms that are
intended to ensure that the interests of shareholders and managers are closely aligned, and …

We examine the impact of cultural diversity in boards of directors on firm performance. We
construct a measure of national cultural diversity by calculating the average of cultural …

Exploring the appointment of directors of different professional backgrounds, levels of
independence, age, gender and ethnicity, this paper develops a taxonomy describing what …