Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

Keywords

corporate boards, board diversity, race, gender, directors, corporations, corporate governance, diversity

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.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Race discrimination, Boards of directors, Corporate governance, Cultural pluralism, Corporations, Sex (Psychology), Directors of corporations

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