The following is posted on behalf of Siri Terjesen (
terjesen@indiana.edu):
Dear GDO colleagues,
(Apologies for cross-posting to CAR and BPS lists).
Just two quick announcements for scholars interested in issues of board diversity (gender, ethnic, etc):
1. Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR) has a call for papers for a special issue on board diversity with a deadline of September 1 2013 (see attached PDF). A conference will be held December 19-20, 2013 in Amsterdam.
2. GDO is jointly sponsoring (with BPS and CAR) a “Showcase Symposium” on Women on Boards. The session will be Tuesday August 13 from 9:45-11:15am in WDW Dolphin Resort Oceanic 7. Information is as follows: The symposium comprises presentations of seven research projects on the phenomenon of women on corporate boards. The global author team (18 authors from 9 countries and 15 institutions) will share their latest findings. The diversity of topics (i.e., gender quota legislation, director role identities, board composition-firm performance relationship), theories (i.e., welfare state, political systems, institutions, agency, path dependency, social role identity, human capital, social capital, sense-making), data and methodologies (i.e., interviews with board members, secondary data, UCINET, logistic regression, content analysis), and country environments (i.e., detailed discussion of Australia, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Norway, Spain, UK, US; mention of 25 other countries) is deliberate, and expected to stimulate a rich debate of findings and discussion of critical future developments in the field. This is the first opportunity that each paper will be presented to a scholarly audience; however all the papers are well developed with interesting analyses of respective data. Additionally, we will provide time in the symposium to invite audience members to share their perspectives on these findings and any findings from their related research.
Kind regards,
Siri Terjesen
terjesen@indiana.edu