"This forward-thinking Handbook explores two major research strands in the fast-developing field of culture and network analysis: the underlying social networks of culture and the cultural bases of social networks. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, editors Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop...

This paper examines gender composition in executive management teams and explores how female executive managers affect the financial performance of their organizations. Using data compiled from 2,872 US companies between 1992 and 2008, we find evidence of a significant non-linear relationship...

Purpose – The paper's aim is to examine how diversity management discourse reproduces heteronormative essentialist notions of identity in organisations. Design/methodology/approach – This is a critical analysis of diversity management discourse that draws upon concepts, frames and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which gender is “done” in executive search. The authors uncover how the ideal candidate for top management is defined in and through search practices, and discuss how and why women are excluded in the process....