The enduring lack of diversity in the corporate elite continues to attract attention from
scholars and practitioners. However, the issue of representation or 'body count'–in particular …

Purpose Drawing on Putnam's concept of social capital, this study aims to examine the oral
life histories of women on management boards. It explores how the bridging and bonding …

Purpose To increase the share of women in the top management of companies, legal
gender quotas are increasingly being introduced worldwide. Their effect, however …

It is hard to over-estimate the importance of the social sciences in informing us of deepening
inequalities at work and how they are likely to play out as the economic crisis generated by …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify how board recruitment processes have been
impacted by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) governance changes requiring listed …

Although previous research has separately investigated the impact of board gender diversity
(BGD) and ownership structure on corporate social performance (CSP), there is a lack of …

The nature of academic institutions is inherently gendered. This is because higher education
institutions (HEIs) do not operate in a void but, rather, are part and parcel of patriarchal …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book discusses the pressures imposed on managers and staff …

Public debate on mandating gender representation on boards of directors in the United
States is close to a boiling point. California introduced a mandatory quota in 2018 only to …

Whereas governments are increasingly considering affirmative action programs to increase
corporate board diversity, the effect of such programs can be superficial as they do not …