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Diversity in composition of supervisory boards
Vrbíková, Barbora ; Josková, Lucie (advisor) ; Čech, Petr (referee)
in English Diversity in Composition of Supervisory Boards This paper focuses on analysing the current situation of composition of board of directors in Europe as well as in the United States with the emphasis on supervisory boards in the dualistic model and the non-executive members of boards in the monistic model. It is aimed on one hand at evaluating the business case for diversity as its proponents including the European Commission and several European governments present it, on the other at judging diversity from the critical point of view of its opponents. Lastly, this paper presents different approaches that may be taken to this topic, i.e. the measures that can be engaged in order to achieve higher diversity. In the beginning I shortly summarise the nature and function of the supervisory board under Czech law as well as the general status of supervisory board or the non-executive part of board of directors in both corporate governance systems. I then scrutinise the approaches to diversity in Europe and the USA and look at the different criteria of diversity considered. The centre of this work comprises of evaluating both the advantages and benefits of diversity on one hand and disadvantages and costs on the other. It is particularly this part of the analysis that is crucial to both...
Diversity in composition of supervisory boards
Vrbíková, Barbora ; Josková, Lucie (advisor) ; Čech, Petr (referee)
in English Diversity in Composition of Supervisory Boards This paper focuses on analysing the current situation of composition of board of directors in Europe as well as in the United States with the emphasis on supervisory boards in the dualistic model and the non-executive members of boards in the monistic model. It is aimed on one hand at evaluating the business case for diversity as its proponents including the European Commission and several European governments present it, on the other at judging diversity from the critical point of view of its opponents. Lastly, this paper presents different approaches that may be taken to this topic, i.e. the measures that can be engaged in order to achieve higher diversity. In the beginning I shortly summarise the nature and function of the supervisory board under Czech law as well as the general status of supervisory board or the non-executive part of board of directors in both corporate governance systems. I then scrutinise the approaches to diversity in Europe and the USA and look at the different criteria of diversity considered. The centre of this work comprises of evaluating both the advantages and benefits of diversity on one hand and disadvantages and costs on the other. It is particularly this part of the analysis that is crucial to both...

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