Tremblay, Marie-Soleil; Gendron, Yves; Malsch, Bertrand - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 29 (2016) 1, pp. 165-190
Purpose – Drawing on Bourdieu’s (2001) concept of symbolic violence in his work on Masculine Domination, the purpose of this paper is to examine how perceptions of legitimacy surrounding the presence of female directors are constructed in the boardroom, and the role of symbolic violence in...