RT Article
T1 Women and Employee-Elected Board Members, and Their Contributions to Board Control Tasks
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 89
IS 4
SP 581
OP 597
A1 Huse, Morten 1953-
A1 Nielsen, Sabina
A1 Hagen, Inger Marie
A2 Nielsen, Sabina
A2 Hagen, Inger Marie
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785636359
AB We present results from a study about women and employee-elected board members, and fill some of the gaps in the literature about their contribution to board effectiveness. The empirical data are from a unique data set of Norwegian firms. Board effectiveness is evaluated in relation to board control tasks, including board corporate social responsibility (CSR) involvement. We found that the contributions of women and employee-elected board members varied depending on the board tasks studied. In the article we also explored the effects of the esteem of the women and employee-elected board members, and we used creative discussions in the boardroom as a mediating variable. Previous board research, including research about women and employee-elected directors, questions if the board members contribute to board effectiveness. The main message from this study is that it may be more important to ask how, rather than if, women and employee-elected board members contribute, and we need to open the black box of actual board behavior to explore how they may contribute.
K1 creative discussions
K1 Esteem
K1 board control tasks
K1 employee-elected directors
K1 women directors
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
K1 boards of directors
DO 10.1007/s10551-008-0018-4