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Overcoming Resistance To Diversity In The Executive Suite: Grease, Grit, And The Corporate Promotion Tournament, Donald C. Langevoort
Overcoming Resistance To Diversity In The Executive Suite: Grease, Grit, And The Corporate Promotion Tournament, Donald C. Langevoort
Washington and Lee Law Review
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"We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer": Diversity Doublespeak, Cheryl L. Wade
"We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer": Diversity Doublespeak, Cheryl L. Wade
Washington and Lee Law Review
There are too few discussions about race and race relations among corporate managers and directors. The rhetoric used in these infrequent discussions revolves around the idea of diversity in the workplace. In recent years, when speaking about employees and race issues, corporate actors have become curiously silent about discrimination and racism. This Article provides several examples of the rhetorical devices used by corporate spokespersons that ignore persisting problems with discrimination and racism by focusing solely on diversity efforts. Diversity rhetoric allows corporate managers to avoid responsibility for enduring discrimination in the workplace. Diversity efforts, without antidiscrimination efforts, increase the likelihood …
Games Ceos Play And Interest Convergence Theory: Why Diversity Lags In America's Boardrooms And What To Do About It, Steven A. Ramirez
Games Ceos Play And Interest Convergence Theory: Why Diversity Lags In America's Boardrooms And What To Do About It, Steven A. Ramirez
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Race To The Top Of The Corporate Ladder: What Minorities Do When They Get There, Devon W. Carbado, Mitu Gulati
Race To The Top Of The Corporate Ladder: What Minorities Do When They Get There, Devon W. Carbado, Mitu Gulati
Washington and Lee Law Review
Racing to the top of the corporate hierarchy is difficult, no matter how qualified or capable the candidate. Producing more widgets than one's competitors is not enough. Negotiating the political landscape of the institution is also required. More specifically, individual corporate officers have to be appeased, powerful interest groups have to be co-opted and made allies, and competitors have to be undermined or eliminated. The more bureaucratic the organization and the more opaque the promotion process, the more important this institutional game to climbing the corporate ladder. This Article identifies the kind of racial minorities or racial types who are …
Tax, Corporate Governance, And Norms, Steven A. Bank
Tax, Corporate Governance, And Norms, Steven A. Bank
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Article examines the use of federal tax provisions to effect changes in state law corporate governance. There is a growing academic controversy over these provisions, fueled in part by their popularity among legislators as a method of addressing the recent spate of corporate scandals. As a case study on the use of tax to regulate corporate governance, this paper compares and contrasts two measures enacted during the New Deal-the enactment of the undistributed profits tax in 1936 and the overhaul of the tax-free reorganization provisions in 1934-and considers why the former was so much more controversial and less sustainable …