The Corporate Board Glass Ceiling: The Role of Empowerment and Culture in Shaping Board Gender Diversity

Lewellyn, Krista; Muller‐Kahle, Maureen I.

doi:10.1007/s10551-019-04116-9

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“…Li et al, 2017), has become especially important. Despite evidence that women directors help with nonfinancial performance such as CSR and sustainability (Li et al, 2017), and related concerns over the ethical and financial concerns (Carter, D'Souza, Simkins, & Simpson, 2010;Cumming, Leung, & Rui, 2015) arising from a lack of gender diversity, the presence of female directors remains quite low (Lewellyn & Muller-Kahle, 2019), and there is increasing pressure globally to enhance the percentage of female directors on the board. Many countries have chosen to adopt either a coercive, enabling, or laissez-faire approach (Labelle, Francoeur, & Lakhal, 2015).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Board gender diversity and corporate environmental performance: The moderating role of family and dual‐class majority ownership structures

2020

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While prior work has investigated the impact of (a) ownership structure and (b) board gender diversity separately on corporate environmental performance, researchers have not studied the potentially important relationship between ownership control and female board diversity in influencing corporate environmental performance jointly. We do so in the context of majority ownership in family‐controlled and dual‐class firms whose motives and influence are theoretically different from that of the firm's minority shareholders. Drawing on resource dependency, socioemotional wealth theory, and secondary agency theory, we hypothesize that majority family owners and dual‐class owners likely choose women directors to help advance their personal preferences for environmental corporate social responsibility. Our empirical tests utilizing 2,755 U.S. firm years over the 2010–2015 show that, as hypothesized, these two majority ownership types interact with board gender diversity to positively influence corporate environmental performance.

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Research Hypothesesmentioning

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Board gender diversity and corporate environmental performance: The moderating role of family and dual‐class majority ownership structures

2020

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“…This approach enables us to study how multiple causal attributes combine into distinct configurations to produce an interesting outcome (conjunctural causation), and to assess whether multiple configurations are linked to the same outcome (equifinality), in this case, involvement in HRIs. Management researchers have used fsQCA to study, for instance, consumers' unethical judgments (Leischnig & Woodside, 2019), board gender diversity (Lewellyn & Muller-Kahle, 2020), the adoption of ethical standards (Prado & Woodside, 2015), the drivers of high performance (Brenes et al, 2019), institutional diversity (Jackson & Deeg, 2008), varieties of capitalism (Judge et al, 2014), strategies to manage institutional voids (Brenes et al, 2019), stakeholder and shareholder orientation drivers (Crilly, 2011), and the antecedents of opportunism in market entry (Verbeke et al, 2019).…”

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Business and Human Rights: A Configurational View of the Antecedents of Human Rights Infringements by Emerging Market Firms

Ciravegna

Nieri

2021

J Bus Ethics

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This study investigates the antecedents of human rights infringements (HRIs) by emerging market firms (EFs). We used fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine HRIs in 245 firms based in eight emerging markets, between 2003 and 2012. Our findings disclose three equifinal configurations of high levels of HRIs, all involving EFs that have expanded to a high number of foreign markets: (i) large, old, low performing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) operating in high quality institutions’ home and host markets, (ii) small, young, over-performing EFs operating in low quality institutions’ home and host markets, and finally (iii) large, old, high performing SOEs, operating in low quality institutions’ home and host markets. We contribute to the literature by examining a novel dataset on HRIs by EFs, and by building a configurational explanation of HRIs that bridges the arguments of the institutional theory and strain theory literatures on corporate wrongdoing.

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“…The idea of empowerment is to recognise who can decide (Naz, 2006) to manage your own life through your strategy (Lewellyn & Muller, 2020), to have the freedom to decide on your own and take on the different issues of life (Yount et al, 2018). Murphy 2008, identifies three components of empowering women: self-consciousness, knowledge, and recognition.…”

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A Nexus Between Household Characteristics and Women’s Empowerment: A Case Study of Punjab, Pakistan

Batool

Anwar

Asghar

et al. 2021

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Purpose of the study: The empowerment of women is an important aim for them to be fully engaged in economic life and to achieve sustainable growth worldwide. One form of empowerment is to provide women with basic facilities. Methodology: The study also analyzed the impact on women's empowerment by primary data taken via multi-phase cluster sampling methods of household socio-economic and cultural characteristics in Punjab. Given the diversity of nature and context, the 6-dimensional empirical polychoric principles of empowering women generate a stringent cumulative index of women's autonomy. Main Findings: The empirical findings show that empowering women and their six-dimensional effects are positive for women's years and jobs, legal advertisements, health care institutions, social participation, safe, smooth surroundings, communication, politics and residential negative participation, unpaid housekeeping, and the fear of violence. The results show that women's empowerment is positive. Applications of this study: This study can be more effective in the manner that to offer women free advice about their rights through electronic media, the government should establish an integrated legal cell with the local government. Novelty/Originality of this study: This research contribution in the field of women empowerment that how women can deal with legal advisory, to get jobs, protection in health and institutions.

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The Corporate Board Glass Ceiling: The Role of Empowerment and Culture in Shaping Board Gender Diversity

Cited by 89 publications

References 63 publications

Board gender diversity and corporate environmental performance: The moderating role of family and dual‐class majority ownership structures

Board gender diversity and corporate environmental performance: The moderating role of family and dual‐class majority ownership structures

Business and Human Rights: A Configurational View of the Antecedents of Human Rights Infringements by Emerging Market Firms

A Nexus Between Household Characteristics and Women’s Empowerment: A Case Study of Punjab, Pakistan

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