Browsing NHH Brage by Subject "gender quotas"

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    • Do ‘soft law’ board gender quotas work? Evidence from a natural experiment 

      de Cabo, Ruth Mateos; Terjesen, Siri; Escot, Lorenzo; Gimeno, Richard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In a new era of “open governance”, in which societal and corporate change is taking place, 15 predominantly European countries, including Spain, enacted board gender quotas to increase the share of women on boards. In ...

    • Women directors, firm performance, and firm risk: A causal perspective 

      Yang, Philip; Riepe, Jan; Moser, Katharina; Pull, Kerstin; Terjesen, Siri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Norway was the first of ten countries to legislate gender quotas for boards of publicly traded firms. There is considerable debate and mixed evidence concerning the implications of female board representation. In this paper, ...