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Increase board diversity

Board & Administrator for Administrators Only, 2018
Leading with Intent: 2017 National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices showed that 65 percent of nonprofit executives are dissatisfied with the level of racial and ethnic diversity on their boards.
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Board Diversity in Banks

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
The purpose of paper is to explore the diversity of bank boards as an innovative tool to reduce the effects of the global crisis and as a beginning of long-term sustainable development. The expectations from the diversifying boards are mainly related to improving the quality of decisions, methods of risk management and remuneration of executive ...
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The economics of board diversity

2021
The past decade has seen an increasing interest in the issue of board gender diversity around the world. Accompanying this interest is a global debate over the justifications behind board gender diversity. This debate stems from conflicting results of previous studies that overemphasise the relationship between board gender diversity and accounting ...
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Recruiting a diverse board

Children and Young People Now, 2018
Many charities struggle to recruit trustees effectively, yet a diverse board with a good mix of skills and experience ensures organisations get the scrutiny and guidance that they need to survive and thrive
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Board gender diversity and investment inefficiency

Journal of Economics and Business, 2021
This paper investigates the effect of board gender diversity on a firm’s investment inefficiency and finds that a firm with at least one female director on its board has significantly less investment inefficiency than firms without one. The fraction of female directors on the board has a significantly negative association with investment inefficiency ...
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Diversity and the board of directors: a comparative perspective

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
When Norwegian feminist activists began militating for a corporate board quota in 1999, nobody would have predicted that, fifteen years after its adoption in 2003 that most of the top ten world economies would follow suit. Norway’s statute took a clear, new direction for corporate governance and for equality law in two respects: 1) the central role ...
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Integrated Reports and Board Diversity

2020
Organizations currently must report to a broader audience, capturing the attention of several categories of stakeholders, who want to know why, where, and how companies create and add value, and how they deal with responsibility and sustainability issues, contributing to the emerging of integrated reporting (IR).
Lopes, A. I., Braz, M. J.
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Diversity on the Editorial Board

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2021
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Evaluative Diversity and the Board

Board Leadership, 2016
In the second article of this issue of Board Leadership addressing the board's job of creating both plurality and unity, Chris Santos‐Lang introduces the concept of evaluative diversity.
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Diversity on the Board of Directors

2018
This current study focuses on the diversity of members on the board of directors. There exist many forms of diversity that affect firm financial and accounting performance as well as organizational behavior of board members. Furthermore, director heterogeneity could have both positive and negative effects on corporate boards. Nowadays, gender diversity
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