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Gender diversity at the top echelons of the firm may provide strong signals to foster diversity inside the organization. This chapter aims to contribute to the lack of studies based on complementary factors of board diversity, as they may build a potential exemplary roadmap within the same context. It seeks to understand whether sets of determinants whose combination may lead to making boards diverse in excess of the norm and steering the organization to the pursuit of the goal. Thus, the authors study different blends of variables such as size, public scrutiny, board independence, board size, proportion of proprietary directors, and diversity at the senior management of the firm, showing different paths to achieve diversity at the board. The authors employ a qualitative comparative methodology to study possible joint casual relations paving the way to diversity in Spanish-listed firms comparing changes over four years.

The research literature on diversity in the discipline of management has been configured through a great number of articles over the past few decades. This chapter analyzes how it has been constituted on the basis of different intellectual frameworks, references, authors, topics, and journals. For this aim, the authors utilized bibliometrics techniques, from co-occurrence to mapping, to analyze published articles in significant journals. They offer a great variety of groundings and are related to concepts approaching the topic, such as performance, corporate governance, or corporate resource responsibility. This chapter presents how these elements relate and which ones are important to the literature. It also shows how this relevant coverage of the diversity gives the opportunity to delve into some of the analyses which are understudied and try new-still-not-covered angles and issues in future research.