Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance, and Diversity /
Dhir, Aaron A.
Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance, and Diversity / by Aaron A. Dhir - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. - xiv, 315p.; 23cm.
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.
9781316612828
Corporative governance - Law and Legislation - Norway
Corporate governance - Law and legislation - United States
Corporation Law - Norway
Corporation Law - United States
346.48106642 / DHI
Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance, and Diversity / by Aaron A. Dhir - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. - xiv, 315p.; 23cm.
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.
9781316612828
Corporative governance - Law and Legislation - Norway
Corporate governance - Law and legislation - United States
Corporation Law - Norway
Corporation Law - United States
346.48106642 / DHI