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Volume 30, Issue 6
November-December 2019
Pages 1125-1393, C2-C3
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- Received:September 12, 2017
- Accepted:March 06, 2019
- Published Online:October 01, 2019
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Isabelle Solal, Kaisa Snellman (2019) Women Don’t Mean Business? Gender Penalty in Board Composition. Organization Science 30(6):1270-1288.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1301
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The authors thank seminar participants at Columbia Business School, London Business School, and INSEAD, as well as Emilio Castilla, John-Paul Ferguson, Roberto Fernandez, Martin Gargiulo, Henrich Greve, Herminia Ibarra, Phanish Puranam, Olav Sorensen, Ithai Stern, Roderick Swaab, Stefan Thau, Eric Luis Uhlmann, Phebo Wibbens, and Timothy Van Zandt for helpful comments and suggestions. The authors are especially grateful to Senior Editors Ned Smith and Aleksandra Kacperczyk and to three anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback throughout the review process.
