RT Journal Article
T1 The challenge of board composition: effects of board resource variety and faultlines on the degree of a firm’s international activity
A1 Barroso, Carmen
A1 Pérez-Calero, L.
A1 Vecino, Julio
A1 Villegas, M. Mar
K1 Board of directors
K1 Faultlines
K1 Board resource variety
K1 Corporate governance
K1 International activity
AB This study explores the relationship between diversity in board composition and the degree of a firm’s international activity. Specifically, we posit that board resource variety has a positiverelationship with the international activity of the firm and that the strength of board faultlines moderates this relationship. Using data collected from Spanish public companies over the period2005 to 2010, our analysis shows strong support for our hypotheses. Our work contributes to the literature on board’s diversity by demonstrating that board resource variety should be capturedby considering “the director profile” rather than any single attribute and that this type of variety can engender subgroups that weakens its benefits. Therefore, our results have implications for thestrategic management challenge international firms face when they put together their boards. A corporate board needs to structure itself in such a way as to benefit from the wealth of the varietyof its resources, but without succumbing to the risks posed by conflicts between subgroups arising from the presence of faultlines.
PB ScienceDirect
YR 2022
FD 2022-04-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/21694
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/21694
LA en
NO Long Range Planning Volume 55, Issue 2 , April 2022, 102047
NO Proyectos de investigaciónECO 2017-84364-R and RTI 2018-101038-B- 100
NO Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Departamento de Organización de Empresas y Marketing
DS RIO
RD Apr 25, 2026