The social construction of gender has led to differences in beliefs, knowledge, experiences, or networks between women and men. Some argue that mixed teams can show perform better. However, empirical research at the firm level provided evidence. Moreover, these studies mainly focus on board directors top management teams. Few have examined how middle staff levels affect performance. These form ...

Purpose This study extends the current literature in context of European countries by showing that women's participation on board can enhance financial performance a company while moderated many cultural factors. Design/methodology/approach examines 19 throughout period 2010–2020. The time-invariant or individual fixed-effect models are used. Findings authors found high power distance and mascu...

Purpose This paper aims to contribute the discussion on executives’ team and firm performance by investigating relationships between compensation, management gender diversity financial in growth enterprises market (GEM) listed firms China. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected from 461 companies GEM boards during period year 2016 2018. Specifically, compensation female executives set a...

We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for non-profit organization were randomly assigned teammate, supervisor, and list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within teams in degree horizontal diversity (between teammates), vertical teammates their supervisor) external they canvassed). observe team-leve...