by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Dec 8, 2023 | Data, Ideas
Today is (probably) the last of my interviews for 2023. Over the last 6 months I have interviewed over 25 women in executive and board roles of Australia’s largest companies from the 1990s to now. Some have been in person, and some have been virtual. In each instance,...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 15, 2023 | Data, Ideas, Writing
In the quest to improve the number of women on boards, we often focus on the individual. We police women’s CVs and tell them their personal characteristics (or personality) are the reason they haven’t reached leadership roles. Tertiary and postgraduate qualifications,...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Oct 31, 2022 | Data, Publishing, Uncategorized
I am thrilled that my new article – “Above board? Interlocking directorates and corporate contagion in 1980s Australia” – has been published in the Australian Economic History Review (see here for the publishers version, which is open access). The piece comes from the...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jul 4, 2022 | Awards, Data, Publishing
My co-authors (the fabulous Associate Professor Corinne Cortese, Dr Abdullah Al-Mamun and Dr Searat Ali) and I were delighted to be nominated for best paper at the 2022 Academy of Management conference in Seattle, Washington. The paper explores rhetorical decoupling...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Apr 8, 2022 | Data, Ideas
I remember sitting in a work in progress workshop with UOW’s CASS network last year, discussing the pilot of my (then proposed, now awarded) DECRA project, the first history of Australian women in corporate leadership. One of the participants, I believe it was Claire...
