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Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance, and Diversity / by Aaron A. Dhir

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Description: xiv, 315p.; 23cmISBN:
  • 9781316612828
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.48106642 DHI
Contents:
1. Introduction: homogeneous corporate governance cultures 2. Laying a foundation: why the board, why the statistics, and why diversification? 3. Enter legal regulation: quota and disclosure-based approaches 4. Norway's socio-legal journey: a qualitative study of boardroom diversity quotas 5. Lessons from Norway: successes and limitations of the quota model 6. Proxy disclosures under the US rule: a mixed-methods content analysis 7. Contextualizing the content analysis results: norms, expressive law, and reform possibilities 8. Conclusions: ongoing inquiry into quotas and disclosure regimes as regulatory models.
Summary: Drawing on semi-structured interviews with corporate board directors in Norway and analysis of corporate securities filings in the US, Dhir investigates two regulatory models designed to address boardroom diversity: quotas and disclosure, and demonstrates the role of diversity in enhancing the quality of corporate governance and reveals the challenges diversity mandates pose.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: homogeneous corporate governance cultures
2. Laying a foundation: why the board, why the statistics, and why diversification?
3. Enter legal regulation: quota and disclosure-based approaches
4. Norway's socio-legal journey: a qualitative study of boardroom diversity quotas
5. Lessons from Norway: successes and limitations of the quota model
6. Proxy disclosures under the US rule: a mixed-methods content analysis
7. Contextualizing the content analysis results: norms, expressive law, and reform possibilities
8. Conclusions: ongoing inquiry into quotas and disclosure regimes as regulatory models.

Drawing on semi-structured interviews with corporate board directors in Norway and analysis of corporate securities filings in the US, Dhir investigates two regulatory models designed to address boardroom diversity: quotas and disclosure, and demonstrates the role of diversity in enhancing the quality of corporate governance and reveals the challenges diversity mandates pose.

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