| This research focused on the networks of Hispanics in the United States serving in a governance capacity as directors on corporate boards. The researcher asked: What are the organizational affiliations and professional characteristics that describe Hispanics who serve on boards of directors of the Fortune 500? How do these affiliations and characteristics impact the director's pathway to board service? The participant group members for this study were all board members of Fortune 500 corporations in 2007.;This study was designed using four sources of information. These sources included the 2007 documentation of the Hispanic Association for Corporate Responsibility (HACR), including director assignments and professional profile information. The second source was the 10K corporate board member biography filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The final documents were the Executive Profile located in the Business Week Corporate Analyst data bank and the Soylent Communications NNDB Biographical Data Base.;These sources demonstrated overlapping, or interlocking, directorships and resulting network affiliations with individual members from corporate boards represented in the Fortune 500. Interlocking directorships are created when a board member, or members, serving on multiple boards create(s) a link between those boards. |
