# kaal:claim:3071378-028

**Claim.** Minority board members are expected to bring in minority clientele, so where the corporation's product is not used by minorities the minority director is perceived as a failure, which stigmatizes minority board members and damages their careers.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- corporations whose products are not used by minority consumers

**Source quote.**

> However, if the product the respective corporation produces is not used by minorities, the minority board member will be perceived as a failure for not bringing in minority clients.94 This may stigmatize minority board members and impact their careers.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America* (2017), III.3 Boards of Directors, page 20

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `125f01674d13b6bb0310c4be7a20ff538dccbc36ecf352770b3c580028387edd` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202017%20-%20Blockchain%20Technology%20and%20Race%20in%20Corporate%20America.pdf

**Failure mode.** minority-director-stigmatization  (family: board-and-oversight-failure)

**Topics.** corporate-governance

**Keywords.** board-diversity, stigmatization, minority-directors, expectations-gap

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