• DOI:10.2139/ssrn.2466787
Corpus ID: 16449880

What Types of Companies Have Female and Foreign Directors?

@article{Morikawa2014WhatTO,
  title={What Types of Companies Have Female and Foreign Directors?},
  author={Masayuki Morikawa},
  journal={Corporate Law: Corporate Governance Law eJournal},
  year={2014}
}

Masayuki Morikawa

Published 2014

Business

Corporate Law: Corporate Governance Law eJournal

This paper analyzes the determinants of the presence and the number of female and foreign directors among Japanese companies. First, listed and long-established companies, subsidiaries, and unionized companies tend not to have female directors. On the other hand, owner-managed companies are likely to have female directors and chief executive officers (CEOs). Company size and foreign shareholdings do not have significant relationships with the presence of female directors. Second, while some… CONTINUE READING

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