Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
This symposium essay summarizes our ongoing ethnographic research on corporate board diversity, discussing the central tension in our respondents’ views – their overwhelmingly enthusiastic support of board diversity coupled with an inability to articulate coherent accounts of board diversity benefits that might rationalize that enthusiasm. As their reactions make clear, frank dialogue about race and gender – even a seemingly benign discussion of diversity’s benefits – can be a difficult conversation.
Citation
Kimberly D. Krawiec et al., A Difficult Conversation: Corporate Directors on Race and Gender, 16 Pace International Law Review 416-425 (2014)
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Race discrimination, Boards of directors, Corporate governance, Cultural pluralism, Corporations, Sex (Psychology), Directors of corporations
Included in
Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, Business Organizations Law Commons, Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons
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