Interlocking Directorship Networks and Gender: A Bibliometric Analysis

Carlo Drago and Livia Amidani Aliberti

Chapter Chapter 8 in Advances in Gender and Cultural Research in Business and Economics, 2019, pp 115-136 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Interlocking directorates and gender are both relevant topics in the modern corporate governance debate. Interlocking directorship networks serve different purposes and can have a significant impact on boards, companies and industries. In this context there has been great interest in gender issues relating to interlocking directorship networks fueled by the recent wave of quota regulations across Europe that has pushed up the presence of women on boards. In this paper we provide a bibliometric analysis of the results in literature related to interlocking directorships and gender; in particular we analyse the relevant literature in order to understand its structure using co-citation mechanisms and co-word analysis of the relevant works. It is possible to observe from the existent literature that the topics of interlocking directorship and performance have developed into a relevant and researched area for academics. The results show that it is important to study the structure of the interlocking directorship networks by gender, type of role on boards, presence in board committees, as they impact performance. The main contribution of this work is to assess the existing literature on female networks, interlocking directorship networks and also the effects of different patterns of board diversity on the economic performances of companies.

Keywords: Gender; Interlocking directorship; Board diversity; Bibliometrics; Bibliometric analysis; Women on board (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-030-00335-7_8

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030003357

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00335-7_8

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().