Australian firms hire an increasing number of foreign directors who bring various cultural perspectives to their boards' conversations. We evaluate the effect of board cultural diversity contributed by foreign directors on firm performance for a sample of Australian companies, constituents of...

We examine the impact of board cultural diversity, based on directors' ancestry, on firm performance conditional on product market competition. We argue that culturally diverse boards foster critical thinking and offer creative solutions that help firms thrive in competitive environments. We...

The study analyzes the small-world nature of the board interlock network for National Stock Exchange–listed firms in India. The small world is the notion that each firm can reach any other firm in the network through a small number of intermediate firms. We find that since the introduction of...

Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a positive or negative effect on firm performance. We build the largest dataset of Australian...