[PDF] Top 20 BOARD, GENDER DIVERSITY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE

... Resource dependency theory, was proposed first by Pfeffer and Salancik, (1978). They posit that, firms operate in an open system and needing to exchange and, or acquire certain resources in order to survive, making the ... See full document

... in firm characteristics (such as size, age etc.) as well as board characteristics (size, composition ...between board gender diversity and firm performance does not mean ... See full document

... The board of management is responsible for decision-making in daily ...supervisory board is responsible for supervising corporate policies of the board of management, with the emphasis on identifying ... See full document

... the board members age is not researched ...a board member is not a full- time job and there are quite often board members are ...retired. Board members remain active at a later ...the ... See full document

... the diversity of directors of boards based on gender diversity (Medland, ...the performance of ...between board diversity and firm financial ...and gender ... See full document

... the firm and the managers that control the firm's assets (Jensen & Meckling, ...the firm (Fama, 1980; Holmström, ...reduce firm risk or forego risky positive net present value projects which may ... See full document

... in diversity‟ and suggest that having female representation would foster diverse viewpoints to the boardroom and would eventually elicit lively boardroom ...female board member was younger than her male ... See full document

... of board members followed the disclosure failures at Satyam Computer Services by the company’s founder-chairman’s own admission, had continued for seven long years ...ensuring board independence from ... See full document

... female board representation had no impact on firm ...on firm performance, controlling for firm characteristics, as well as for the direction of ...positive performance effects ... See full document

... The corporate risk-taking has caught public attention due to the global financial crisis for the past few years. The level of risk-taking reveals whether the managers would choose to invest a risky project. The higher ... See full document

... where PERF is financial performance, which is measured by ROA and natural logarithm of Tobin’s q; PWOMEN is the proportion of women; PFOREIGN is the proportion of foreign nationals; PYOU[r] ... See full document

... that gender diversity brings about a better understanding of the market ...because gender diversity in the board matches the diversity of customers and employees in the market ... See full document

... While discrimination on the basis of immutable characteristics inherent to protected classes under Title VII is actionable, a recent debate examin- ing the application of this standard to businesses’ formal grooming ... See full document

... that diversity could improve the effectiveness of the Board and specifically recommends that companies can benefit from the existence of professional women in their ...between gender diversity ... See full document

... that board independence and return on equity (ROE) have positive significant relationship at 1 percent significance ...financial performance of manufacturing listed firms in ...that board indepence ... See full document

... Board diversity enhances performance of firms by bringing more independent and qualified directors in to the board room (Kilic, ...Increased board diversity is believed to ... See full document

... the diversity, as stated by Erhardt et al. (2003). The nationality diversity is, as the gender diversity, measured as the aggregated percentage of ...management board, results of both ... See full document

... past performance of companies and the likelihood of managerial ...as firm size, leverage, liquidity, supervisory board size, as well as important characteristics of chief executives, such as ... See full document

... firm performance. The share of females farming the position of the board of administrators is going to be decreased from the year 2005 till 2007 at the speed of ...important board decisions is ... See full document

... on firm performance of Ethiopian Micro Finance ...the firm performance or ...the performance of firms. On the other hand board size, Board gender diversity, ... See full document