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Homophily: the antithesis of corporate board diversity in the United Kingdom
thesis
posted on 2021-02-02, 15:01 authored by Wendyann RichardsonThe focus of this study is on the corporate governance aspect of board composition in the United Kingdom (UK). The corporate board has received great attention world wide as some scholars and stakeholders call for board diversity. This has led to attempts to rationalise the reasoning behind the large number of homogeneous boards; despite numerous pressures exerted on firms to diversify. Several studies on board composition have employed agency theory or resource dependency theory as theoretical lenses. In contrast, this study utilises homophily theory, a theoretical approach that derives from the sociology discipline. [Continues.]
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Publisher
Loughborough UniversityRights holder
© Wendyann RichardsonPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/Publication date
2017Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.Language
- en
Supervisor(s)
Amon Chizema ; Regina FrankQualification name
- PhD
Qualification level
- Doctoral