More Women on Boards

Lynne E. Devnew, University of Phoenix.Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Brescia University College.Mariateresa Torchia, International University of Monaco.Ronald J. Burke, York University.

• Introduction; Lynne E. Devnew, Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Mariateresa Torchia and Ronald J. Burke.Part I. Why Have Women on Boards?Chapter 1. Do Women on Boards Create Value for the Organization? A Review of the Literature; Emmanuel Zenou.Chapter 2. The Business Utility Case for Women on Boards: Going Beyond the Surface; Morten Huse.Chapter 3. Group Level Androgyny: One Way for Boards of Directors to Navigate the Paradoxes in Complex Decision-Making? Danielle Mercer, Catherine Loughlin, and Kara A. Arnold.Part II. Why Is Adding Women to Boards So Challenging?Chapter 4. Mimetic Isomorphism of Board Gender Diversity in the World; Amalia Carrasco and Claude Francoeur.Chapter 5. Directors' Discursive Resistance to Gender Board Quota: The Belgian Case; Hannelore Roos and Patrizia Zanoni.Chapter 6. Why Are There So Few Women on Boards? Voices from the Boardroom in the United States; Vasilia Vasiliou and Susan M. Adams.Chapter 7. Chinese Women's Representation on Corporate Boards of Directors and Institutional Interventions; Zhi Luan.Chapter 8. Women Board Directors: Africa on the Rise; Rosemary M. Muriungi.Part III. What Actions Increase the Number of Women on Boards?Chapter 9. Those Who Serve and Those Who Aspire to Serve: Looking Back, Looking Ahead; Siri Terjesen, Heather Foust-Cummings, and Lauren Trombetta.Chapter 10. Women's Pathway to the Boardroom: The Intermediary Role of Executive Search Firms; Tanja Reimer.Chapter 11. Preparing Women for Corporate Boards in the Biotechnology Industry; Lynn Johnson Langer, Carolyn Brougham, and Dawn Hocevar.Chapter 12. Analysis of the Perceived Role and Value of Women's Support Networks in Helping Women Gain a Board Position; Ruth Sacks and Fatima Maatwk.Chapter 13. Nonprofit Board Membership: Benefits for Women's Career and Leadership Development; Wendy M. Murphy and Danna Greenberg.Chapter 14. Using Power and Influence to Create Gender Diverse Boardrooms: The Role of Public Policy; Vicki W. Kramer and Seletha R. Butler.Part IV. What Can We Learn from Situations Where There Are Women Board Members?Chapter 15. When Women Lead: Cultivating Diversity from the Top; Malli Gero and Evelyn Garrity.Chapter 16. The Adaptive Gender: Female CEOs, Board Context, and the Completion of M&As in the U.S. Food Industry; Gerwin van der Laan, Katrin Muehlfeld, and Anna Salomons.Chapter 17. Women Directors' Perceptions of Their Contributions on Boards: An Exploratory Study from India; Vasanthi Srinivasan and Rejie George.Chapter 18. Leadership in Governance: Women Board Chairs; Monique Cikaliuk, Ljiljana Eraković, Brad Jackson, Chris Noonan, and Susan Watson.About the Editors.About the Contributors.