Aaron A. Dhir (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto)

Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses interviews with corporate board directors in Norway and analysis of US corporate securities filings to investigate quotas and disclosure in hiring practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781316612828
• ISBN-10: 1316612821
• Artikelnr.: 44885093

Autorenporträt

Aaron A. Dhir is Associate Professor of Law (with tenure) at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto. He was the 2013-14 Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, as well as a Global Justice Senior Fellow at the Yale MacMillan Center. Dhir has served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Massachusetts, the University of Oxford, and University College London. His scholarly interests center on corporate law, governance, theory, and accountability.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: homogeneous corporate governance cultures; 2. Laying a
foundation: why the board, why the statistics, and why diversification?; 3.
Enter legal regulation: quota and disclosure-based approaches; 4. Norway's
socio-legal journey: a qualitative study of boardroom diversity quotas; 5.
Lessons from Norway: successes and limitations of the quota model; 6. Proxy
disclosures under the US rule: a mixed-methods content analysis; 7.
Contextualizing the content analysis results: norms, expressive law, and
reform possibilities; 8. Conclusions: ongoing inquiry into quotas and
disclosure regimes as regulatory models.