Reframing the board diversity issue: Set 25 by 25 target

• Main Authors: SUWARDY, Themin, SURIANARAYANAN GOPALAKRISHNAN, Surianarayanan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Accounting; Asian Studies; Corporate Finance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1695; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2722/viewcontent/Reframing_the_board_diversity_issue_BT_20180215__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Studies have shown there is clear association between aboard's gender diversity and company performance. Yet Singapore has been softerthan usual in pushing the agenda. In this commentary, the authors discussed theimportance of setting an explicit hard target with a fixed deadline to reframeboar...