Evaluating Board Candidates: A Threat-Contingency Model of Shareholder Dissent Against Female Director Candidates

The authors are grateful for the guidance of the senior editor, Aleksandra Kacperczyk, and the three anonymous reviewers. This paper has benefited from input received at HEC Montreal (École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal), Northeastern University, Temple University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of Queensland. The authors also appreciate the helpful comments from seminar participants at the 2019 Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Las Vegas and the 2018 Academy of Management Meeting. We also thank Jenny Hoobler (University of Pretoria) and Sharon Alvarez (University of Pittsburgh) for their friendly reviews of our manuscript. The authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically.