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

‘In this stimulating volume, Sabina Tasheva and Morten Huse have curated innovative, inclusive, intersectional, and multilevel perspectives on diversity in the corporate boardroom. The volume’s contributing authors are experts in their research areas and their chapters address real-world and contemporary issues and challenges. Taken together, this book is a call to action to deepen and extend our understanding and practice of board diversity.’

• Contents:Preface xvi1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Diversity andCorporate Governance 1Sabina Tasheva and Morten HusePART I BOARD DIVERSITY AND CORPORATEGOVERNANCE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE2 Diversity on corporate boards as a multi-dimensional andmulti-level phenomenon: from duality to unity of theoreticaland practical perspectives 8Sabina TashevaPART II DIVERSITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:BEYOND HUMAN CAPITAL, SOCIAL CAPITALAND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS3 Gender quotas on boards 20 years on: a useful tool forincreased wider diversity? Achievements, “broken promises”and blindspots in the Norwegian board diversity debate 17Cathrine Seierstad, Carl Åberg and Hilde Fjellvær4 LGBT+ in the boardroom: a rainbow agenda for change 28Mustafa Özbilgin and Cihat Erbil5 Board diversity: the impact of dynamic capabilities, absorptivecapacity and ambidexterity 45Carl Åberg, Hilde Fjellvær and Cathrine Seierstad6 Board of director international experience and CSRengagement in Asian emerging economies 62Abdullah Al Mamun, Michael Seamer, Jeremy Galbreath andMariano L.M. Heyden7 Directors’ digital expertise and board diversity: empiricalevidence from Dutch boards 81Jana Oehmichen, Michelle Weck and Hans van Ees8 Do nomination committees encourage corporate board diversity? 95Hildur Magnúsdóttir, Throstur Olaf Sigurdjonsson, Audur ArnaArnardottir and Patricia GabaldónPART III ADVANCES IN INTERSECTIONALITY9 Diversity on corporate boards and shareholder activism: anintersectionality approach 112Sarosh Asad and Dimitrios Georgakakis10 Competing inequalities, inclusion and intersectionality: therole of gender, culture and marginal groups for leadership positions 123Vartika Chandra Saman11 Diversity and leadership in the South Pacific: intersectionalityat play on Fijian boards of directors 134Caitlin Harm Nam, Ana Naulu, Baljeet Singh and Sabina TashevaPART IV HOW DO WE UTILIZE THE BENEFITS OFDIVERSITY? RESEARCH ON BOARD DIVERSITY,PROCESSES AND DECISION-MAKING12 Group faultlines in boards of directors: current trends andfuture directions 145Alana Vandebeek13 Faultlines: understanding how board composition mayinfluence team dynamics and subgroup formation in corporate boards 160Esha Mendiratta14 Diversity, board dynamics and board tasks: an introduction tothe theory of proportions 177Sara De Masi and Agnieszka Slomka-GolebiowskaPART V CONSEQUENCES FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE15 Different contexts matter on different levels: plea for a deeperunderstanding of (responding to) (board) diversity 189Andrea D. Bührmann and Katrin Hansen16 Diversity and corporate governance: how can groundbreakingresearch be developed? 204Morten HuseIndex