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This book uses interviews with corporate board directors in Norway and analysis of US corporate securities filings to investigate quotas and disclosure in hiring practices.
List of contents
1. Introduction: homogeneous corporate governance cultures; 2. Laying a foundation: why the board, why the statistics, and why diversification?; 3. Enter legal regulation: quota and disclosure-based approaches; 4. Norway's socio-legal journey: a qualitative study of boardroom diversity quotas; 5. Lessons from Norway: successes and limitations of the quota model; 6. Proxy disclosures under the US rule: a mixed-methods content analysis; 7. Contextualizing the content analysis results: norms, expressive law, and reform possibilities; 8. Conclusions: ongoing inquiry into quotas and disclosure regimes as regulatory models.
About the author
Aaron A. Dhir is Associate Professor of Law (with tenure) at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto. He was the 2013–14 Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, as well as a Global Justice Senior Fellow at the Yale MacMillan Center. Dhir has served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Massachusetts, the University of Oxford, and University College London. His scholarly interests center on corporate law, governance, theory, and accountability.
Summary
Drawing on semi-structured interviews with corporate board directors in Norway and analysis of corporate securities filings in the US, Dhir investigates two regulatory models designed to address boardroom diversity: quotas and disclosure, and demonstrates the role of diversity in enhancing the quality of corporate governance and reveals the challenges diversity mandates pose.
