Research Handbook on Diversity and Corporate Governance

Edited by Sabina Tasheva, Professor, University of Sydney, Australia and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Morten Huse, Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

Contents:

Preface xvi
1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Diversity and
Corporate Governance 1
Sabina Tasheva and Morten Huse

PART I BOARD DIVERSITY AND CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
2 Diversity on corporate boards as a multi-dimensional and
multi-level phenomenon: from duality to unity of theoretical
and practical perspectives 8
Sabina Tasheva

PART II DIVERSITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:
BEYOND HUMAN CAPITAL, SOCIAL CAPITAL
AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
3 Gender quotas on boards 20 years on: a useful tool for
increased wider diversity? Achievements, “broken promises”
and blindspots in the Norwegian board diversity debate 17
Cathrine Seierstad, Carl Åberg and Hilde Fjellvær
4 LGBT+ in the boardroom: a rainbow agenda for change 28
Mustafa Özbilgin and Cihat Erbil
5 Board diversity: the impact of dynamic capabilities, absorptive
capacity and ambidexterity 45
Carl Åberg, Hilde Fjellvær and Cathrine Seierstad
6 Board of director international experience and CSR
engagement in Asian emerging economies 62
Abdullah Al Mamun, Michael Seamer, Jeremy Galbreath and
Mariano L.M. Heyden
7 Directors’ digital expertise and board diversity: empirical
evidence from Dutch boards 81
Jana Oehmichen, Michelle Weck and Hans van Ees
8 Do nomination committees encourage corporate board diversity? 95
Hildur Magnúsdóttir, Throstur Olaf Sigurdjonsson, Audur Arna
Arnardottir and Patricia Gabaldón

PART III ADVANCES IN INTERSECTIONALITY
9 Diversity on corporate boards and shareholder activism: an
intersectionality approach 112
Sarosh Asad and Dimitrios Georgakakis
10 Competing inequalities, inclusion and intersectionality: the
role of gender, culture and marginal groups for leadership positions 123
Vartika Chandra Saman
11 Diversity and leadership in the South Pacific: intersectionality
at play on Fijian boards of directors 134
Caitlin Harm Nam, Ana Naulu, Baljeet Singh and Sabina Tasheva

PART IV HOW DO WE UTILIZE THE BENEFITS OF
DIVERSITY? RESEARCH ON BOARD DIVERSITY,
PROCESSES AND DECISION-MAKING
12 Group faultlines in boards of directors: current trends and
future directions 145
Alana Vandebeek
13 Faultlines: understanding how board composition may
influence team dynamics and subgroup formation in corporate boards 160
Esha Mendiratta
14 Diversity, board dynamics and board tasks: an introduction to
the theory of proportions 177
Sara De Masi and Agnieszka Slomka-Golebiowska

PART V CONSEQUENCES FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
15 Different contexts matter on different levels: plea for a deeper
understanding of (responding to) (board) diversity 189
Andrea D. Bührmann and Katrin Hansen
16 Diversity and corporate governance: how can groundbreaking
research be developed? 204
Morten Huse

Index