Corporate Governance and Diversity in Boardrooms

Barbara Sveva Magnanelli is Assistant Professor of Accounting and Management at the Department of Business Administration of John Cabot University, Italy. Barbara has previously been a Visiting Researcher at Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane, Australia. Her main research interests are related to corporate governance, with particular regard to the board of directors and financial statement frauds. She has also focused her studies on social enterprises and corporate social responsibility. Barbara teaches Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Performance Measurement, and Corporate Governance courses for undergraduate and graduate programs.   Luca Pirolo is Assistant Professor of Management at Luiss Business School – Luiss University, Italy. Luca is the Director of the “Master Degree Programs” at Luiss Business School and the Director of Luiss Creative Business Center.He has been a Visiting Researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden and at Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane, Australia. His research activities can be clustered into two main fields of analysis: the creative and cultural industries, as a field to investigate the relationship between team composition and firm performance, and the corporate governance with a specific focus on the composition of the board of directors.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Corporate Boards.- Chapter 3: Corporate Boards Diversity.- Chapter 4: Board Diversity and firm effects.- Chapter 5: Empirical Analysis on Board Diversity.- Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks and Future Research Agenda.