ANALYSING THE CORPORATE MINDSET ON WOMEN BOARD MEMBERSHIP

Zenovia Cristiana Pop (), Anca Borza () and Ovidiu Niculae Bordea ()
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Zenovia Cristiana Pop: Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Anca Borza: Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Ovidiu Niculae Bordea: Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Chapter 12 in Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Human Resource Management, 2015, pp 133-141 from Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology

Abstract: Under these world economic circumstances full corporate scandals, the improvement of the effectiveness of corporate governance has become a priority. An important influence on a board's effectiveness is its members structure. This study compared men’s CEOs roles, expectations and experiences in male dominated corporate boards from enterprises from various fields of activity regarding women board memberhip. This research investigates the important and subjective variables, more difficult to quantify statistically, that are related to the extent to which women are currently fostered to aspire to future board membership. In the first part, we review the literature on gender diversity on boards and its impact on corporate governance. In the subsequent part, we present the research questions, followed by a description of the survey methodology using Tropes a high performance text analysis for reducing texts to their essential. The last section presents the results and suggests areas of future research and concludes.

Keywords: corporate governance; women; board of directors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
ISBN: 978-83-62197-45-3
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