From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors
研究公司董事的性别和国籍如何与人力及社会资本互动，解释为何某些董事在企业精英中占据更有影响力的位置。基于瑞士数据，发现瑞士公民从两种资本中获益最多，对当前增加“多元化”董事任命的方法提出质疑。
The enduring lack of diversity in the corporate elite continues to attract attention from scholars and practitioners. However, the issue of representation or ‘body count’ – in particular for women – tends to dominate the discussion and overshadows social-relational dimensions. Adopting a network perspective, this article investigates how gender and nationality interact with human and social capital (i.e. director capital), explaining why particular directors hold more influential positions in the corporate elite. Findings from Swiss data show that some specific aspects of human and social capital matter more than others for being an influential director and that, ceteris paribus , Swiss citizens benefit most from both sources of capital. The discussion engages with the implications of our findings on current approaches intended to increase the numbers of appointments of ‘diverse’ directors, and how these are expected to change the corporate elite and the related job market in the longer term.