Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

For every additional female senior executive, companies are nearly two times more likely to appoint another female board member, while companies with a female director on the nominating committee are four times more likely to appoint another female director. • These effects are more pronounced for boards with a lower average age of board members.

Publication Date

2019

Source

Guldiken, O., Mallon, M. R., Fainshmidt, S., Judge, W. Q., & Clark, C. E. (In press). Beyond tokenism: How strategic leaders influence more meaningful gender diversity on boards of directors. Strategic Management Journal, DOI: 10.1002/smj.3049.

Disciplines

Business

Copyright

© 2019, University of South Carolina

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