Raising the bar? Top management teams, gender diversity, and environmental sustainability

Corporate Governance Toward Sustainability Disclosure: Recent Development and Future Research Agenda

“…African countries pay great attention to sustainability issues, such as Nigeria which developed the NSE Sustainability Disclosure Guideline as a guideline for disclosure of sustainability reports (Anazonwu et al, 2018). Mungai et al (2020) raised the issue of environmental performance which is influenced by the composition of companies' boards in Kenya, an indication that this theme is growing and is attracting researchers.…”

“…Previous literature revealed varying results related to relationships between those variables. Some literature says that the higher representation of women encourages the increasingly widespread disclosure rate of sustainability reports (Al-Shaer & Zaman, 2016;Alazzani et al, 2017;Anazonwu et al, 2018;Arayssi, 2016;Bakar et al, 2019;Buallay, 2019a;Moses et al, 2020;Mungai et al, 2020). The existence of a female director or board gender diversity leads to the disclosure of broader social responsibility, pro-environmental and pro-social investment choices, and leadership styles that support marginal and anti-conflict groups (Al-Shaer & Zaman, 2016;Amorelli & García-Sánchez, 2021;Bristy et al, 2021;Powell, 1990;Rao & Tilt, 2016).…”

“…Several recent studies examine the disclosure of sustainability reports related to corporate governance mechanisms such as diversity, attributes, and board composition (Haji, 2013;Alazzani et al, 2017;Ahmad et al, 2018;Bakar et al, 2019;Moses et al, 2020), and ownership structure (Zainal, 2017). Other studies have focused on the relationship between board gender diversity and sustainability disclosure (Ahmad et al, 2018;Al-Shaer & Zaman, 2016;Alazzani et al, 2017;Anazonwu et al, 2018;Arayssi, 2016;Bakar et al, 2019;Buallay, 2019a;Handajani et al, 2014;Moses et al, 2020;Mungai et al, 2020;Shamil et al, 2014;Zhuang et al, 2018). Some previous studies stated that board gender diversity positively affects sustainability disclosure, but on the contrary, there are also research findings which state that there is no significant relationship between those variables (Ahmad et al, 2018;Handajani et al, 2014;Shamil et al, 2014;Zhuang et al, 2018).…”

The impact of board gender diversity on banks' environmental policy: The moderating role of gender inequality in national culture

“…Based on this theoretical underpinning, prior research claims that women are more ethically oriented and empathetic (Boulouta, 2013;Brammer et al, 2007;Matsa & Miller, 2013;Mungai et al, 2020;Rao & Tilt, 2016), thus resulting in more stakeholder orientation than their male colleagues. By shifting the focus to the role of women on boards, we believe that this unique female trait may drive board F I G U R E 1 Conceptual and empirical framework members to make a higher commitment to developing a more effective stakeholder orientation towards environmental objectives (Ben-Amar et al, 2017;Mungai et al, 2020).…”

Ecomap or Ecomapping in the productive sector: Practical tool for the diagnosis of the environmental situation

“…The organizations are aware of this and of the need to insert them in this international market, which has as a mandatory requirement to demonstrate a solid environmental performance in correspondence with the expectations of the interested parties and the transparency of their information. Thus, information related to the environment is a top issue on international agendas that also has an impact on organizations (Moussa et al, 2021;Mungai et al, 2020).…”