Purpose The glass ceiling is a metaphor used to characterize the gender inequality of women at the top in most large western organizations. This situation has prompted many business organizations, NGOs and governments to encourage large organizations to promote more women into the executive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the major sources of risk to a company's reputation that a board of directors should take responsibility for monitoring. Design/methodology/approach – The paper looks at numerous corporate scandals around the world in the last decade which...