Browsing BI Open by Author "Staubo, Siv"
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Does mandatory gender balance work? Changing organizational form to avoid board upheaval
Bøhren, Øyvind; Staubo, Siv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Norway is the first, and so far the only, country to mandate a minimum fraction of female and male directors on corporate boards. We find that after a new gender balance law surprisingly stipulated that the firm must be ... -
Mandatory gender balance and board independence
Bøhren, Øyvind; Staubo, Siv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We find that forcing radical gender balance on corporate boards is associated with increased board independence and reduced firm value. A mandatory 40-percent gender quota shifts the average fraction of independent directors ... -
Regulation and Corporate Board Composition
Staubo, Siv (Series of Dissertations;1/2014, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis is in the field of corporate governance. The corporate governance structure involves laws, rules, and regulations on the distribution of rights and responsibilities among the different stakeholders in the firm. ...