This study explores board tasks performance. Boards of directors fulfil two main tasks: (i) monitoring managers and firm performance, and (ii) providing advice and access to resources. A growing stream of research endeavours to understand what enhances (constrains) boards' engagement into...

We analyze whether gender interactions at the top of the corporate hierarchy affect corporate performance. Using a comprehensive data set of family-controlled firms in Italy, we find that female directors significantly improve the operating profitability of female-led companies. To mitigate...

This article examines the objective facets of CEO careers in family and non-family firms. Optimal matching analysis coupled with cluster analysis are used to show how careers are shaped by different factors in family and non-family firms. We have three central empirical concerns. First, are...