Management board diversity: Accomplishment or disappointment?: A pedagogical case study on Norway

• Autor(a) principal: Haidar, Hala Naji
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19396
• topic: Ethics; Board diversity; Corporate governance; Norway; Ética; Diversidade do conselho de administração; Governança corporativa; Noruega; Gestão de empresas; Diversidade; Género; Caso pedagógico -- Pedagogical case; Trabalho de projeto

The issue of board diversity within firms has been widely debated. Norway was the first European country to mandate obligatory quota within its board of directors followed by several European countries. This thesis examines the case of Norway as an exemplary in terms of board diversity, exploring existing research on the effects of boardroom diversity on firm value. Since it has been almost 12 years since Norway launched its sole experiment, the case study will seek to draw on the consequences of the Norwegian quota for gender diversity and use the outcomes to assess whether there is indeed a "business case" for diversity in the boardroom and analyze the importance of boardroom diversity in relation to various management frameworks. It is expected that by analyzing Norway's case, the target audience of this pedagogical case study – undergraduate students in the field of Business Ethics – will have the opportunity to not only gain a profound familiarity about the case of Norway and how it implemented the mandatory quota in its boards, but will also have the opportunity to practice the use of specific management concepts and ethical tools and frameworks, which they will likely find convenient in their university courses and upcoming careers.