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Increasing research attention has been paid to corporate boards of directors (Demb & Neubauer, 1992). Recent writing has focussed on evaluating corporate director performance (Conger, Finegold & Lawler, 1998), corporate director influences on CEO pay (Cochran, Wood & Jones, 1985) and relationships between director characteristics and company performance (Daily, 1995, Zahra & Pearce, 1989). Relatively little consideration has been given to the makeup of coprorate boards of directors particularly the low participation of qualified women serving on them (Gillies, 1992; Lorsch & MacIver, 1989).
This research was supported in part by the School of Business, York University and Catalyst. Elizabeth Kurucz, Celia Moore and Rob Carson assisted with data collection and analysis.
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Burke, R.J. (2000). Company Size, Board Size and Numbers of Women Corporate Directors. In: Burke, R.J., Mattis, M.C. (eds) Women on Corporate Boards of Directors. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3401-4_11
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