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Human Resource Management, 2018
While prior board of director studies have considered the role of director occupational expertise in areas such as law and finance on the strategic actions of the firm, little consideration has been given to understanding the value that human resource expertise on boards of directors, or board HR expertise, can provide. Drawing upon agency and resource
Frank Mullins
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While prior board of director studies have considered the role of director occupational expertise in areas such as law and finance on the strategic actions of the firm, little consideration has been given to understanding the value that human resource expertise on boards of directors, or board HR expertise, can provide. Drawing upon agency and resource
Frank Mullins
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Board Gender Diversity and Carbon Disclosure: The Moderating Role of Board Expertise Diversity
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementABSTRACT Board gender diversity has been a key focus in research on the determinants of sustainability disclosures. However, existing literature often attributes variations in disclosure practices to gender diversity rather than board expertise.
Kazumi Endo
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Industry expertise on corporate boards
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2012Recent surveys indicate that industry expertise is the most sought-after director qualification. Yet evidence on the value of such expertise is limited. We study whether, how, and when industry expertise enhances board effectiveness. We find that industry expertise is positively associated with firm value.
Olubunmi Faleye +2 more
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Board Expertise and Executive Incentives
Management Science, 2017We investigate how board expertise affects chief executive officer (CEO) incentives and firm value. The CEO engages in a sequence of tasks: first acquiring information to evaluate a potential project, then reporting his or her assessment of the project to the board, and finally implementing the project if it is adopted.
Xiaojing Meng, Jie Joyce Tian
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Professional Expertise and Board Diversity
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013Boards of directors have received limited guidance about the types and diversity of professional expertise expected on corporate boards. This is because little is actually known about the expertise that exists on corporate boards. In this study, we categorize directors by 11 types of professional expertise and examine the diversity of professional ...
Stephen Gray, John Nowland
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Board's IT Expertise and Firm Innovation
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019We examine the relationship between the board’s IT expertise and firm innovation. Using a novel hand–collected dataset from biographies of directors, we find that the board’s IT expertise has a positive influence on firm innovation – measured in terms of R&D expenditures and patents applied.
Moksh Matta +2 more
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Directors' digital expertise and board diversity: empirical evidence from Dutch boards
2023Given recent corporate governance, strategy, and information systems literature, we propose that the digitalization of our economy can have consequences for the tasks for non-executive directors. Hence, firms now need digital expertise within boardrooms. This might influence overall board diversity.
Jana Oehmichen +2 more
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The Value Effects of Digital Expertise on Corporate Boards
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020We examine the impact of board level digital expertise on firm performance for a sample of FTSE 350 firms over the period 2013 to 2018. We find that the presence of digital experts on the boards is significantly and positively related to firm performance.
Sudha Mathew +2 more
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Determinants of board members' financial expertise — Empirical evidence from France [PDF]
The International Journal of Accounting, 2008 Abstract Very few countries require directors to be financially literate. This article investigates the determinants of boards' financial expertise using a sample of 95 nonfinancial French listed firms. We construct a measure of financial expertise based on educational and career background data for 943 individuals occupying 1140 posts in our sample ...
Stolowy, Hervé, Jeanjean, Thomas
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The Value of Expertise: How CEO and Board CSR Expertise Enhance the Financial Effects of Firm’s CSR
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021We examine how CEO and board CSR expertise (knowledge) can interact to influence the extent to which firms benefit from their CSR investments.
Marwan Ahmad Alshammari +2 more
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