This study examines the issue of gender diversity on boards of firms listed on the New Zealand Stock exchange (NZX). New Zealand was chosen because it has one of the lowest rates of women on public-company boards in the western world, according to data from the Institute of Directors. In...

This study has four key objectives as follows: first, to test how family-controlled firms are associated with firm performance in Europe; second, investigate whether the blockholding influences firm performance; third, to compare firm performance of active family controlled firms with passive...