Board Expertise: Do Directors from Related Industries Help Bridge the Information Gap?

By Omesh Kini, N. Dass, Bunyamin Onal, Jun Wang, Vikram K. Nanda. 2014

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Subfields: Accounting

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Citations in the corpus

• The Labor Market for Directors and Externalities in Corporate Governance (2016, background): “Indeed, the labor market for directors is somewhat segmented both by geographic location (e.g., Knyazeva, Knyazeva, and Masulis (2009)) and by industry since rms look for candidates with relevant expertise and industry knowledge (e.g., Kini et al. (2011)).”
• Female directors, board committees and firm performance (2018, unknown): “These effects are comparable to the effect of directors’ expertise reported by Dass et al. (2014).”