Legislating a Woman’s Seat on the Board: Institutional Factors Driving Gender Quotas for Boards of Directors

Ten countries have established quotas for female representation on publicly traded corporate and/or state-owned enterprise boards of directors, ranging from 33 to 50 %, with various sanctions. Fifteen other countries have introduced non-binding gender quotas in their corporate governance codes enfor...
Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Autor*in:

Terjesen, Siri [verfasserIn]

Aguilera, Ruth V. [verfasserIn]

Lorenz, Ruth [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2015

Schlagwörter:

State-owned enterprises

Publicly traded firms

Path dependency

Left-leaning political coalitions

Welfare state

Board gender quotas

Board gender codes

Gender equality

Corporate governance

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics - Dordrecht : Springer, 1982, 128(2015), 2, Seite 233-251

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:128 ; year:2015 ; number:2 ; pages:233-251

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s10551-014-2083-1

Katalog-ID:

1785653946

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