In 2017, “The Big Three” institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led firms to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016, accounting for most of the increase in board gender...

We examine the link between corporate culture and the company’s willingness to appoint women to the Boards of Directors. We proxy corporate culture by how companies communicate with investors in the 10-K filings. Our findings provide persistent evidence for a causal link between competitive...

Culture is the core factor of corporate innovation, and board culture is the core embodiment of cultural factors in corporate governance. Board culture will have an important impact on corporate innovation, So what kind of board culture can Chinese boards build to better contribute to corporate...

Exploiting a distinctive measure of corporate culture based on advanced machine learning, we investigate the effect of board gender diversity on corporate culture. Our results demonstrate that greater board gender diversity considerably strengthens positive corporate culture. The findings...

Purpose: The pace of globalization is affecting each and every aspect of the business. In this era of economic globalization, it is hard for business managers to tackle the global workforce. Everyday human resource managers are facing new issues. The issues are related to gender diversity,...