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This study examines the factors that influenced the number of new boards joined by directors of the largest U.S. corporation in 1982. Social connections had by far the greatest impact on joining new boards, while the performance of the firms on whose boards directors sat had little discernible effect.
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Gerald F. Davis (1993) studied this question.
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