Abstract The Indian Companies Act (2013) mandates the appointment of at least one woman director for large publicly listed companies in India order to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. study analyzes relationship between governance mechanisms, board diversity, and ownership structure dividend payout decisions an emerging economy like India. uses data collected nonfinancial firms NS...

The board of directors is the most important decision-making body in a corporation. Boards are responsible for approving major strategic and financial decisions, such as mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and changes in capital structure, and also for the most important task of all, which is to hire and fire top executives. Not surprisingly, substantial research focuses on the workings of corporat...

The ‘glass cliff’ posits that when women achieve high profile roles, these are at firms in precarious positions. Previous research analysed appointments (male/female), estimated the precariousness of firms involved and drew inferences about the glass cliff. This study is different as it directly tests the relationship between a precarious situation and changes in board gender diversity. The sam...

The present study investigates the relationship between board characteristics and a firm value. offers new insight into association value by examining whether gender diversity alters impact of on uses panel data approach sample 39 non-financial firms listed in S&P BSE SENSEX 50 over 6 years (2014–2015 to 2019–2020). An appropriate model fixed effect random was selected using Hausman test fi...

This pocket guide, a supplement to "The Family Planning Manager," provides suggestions for building an effective, supportive board of directors. Among the topics covered are defining the board's terms of office, board committees, criteria for selecting board members and the board leader, dealing with key family planning issues, and ethical concerns. Also included is a sample chart for keeping...

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...

Based on agency theory, this paper contributes to the literature by assessing effects of Supervisory Board size, gender diversity, and multiple directorship performance within banking industry small island developing state: Curacao. The research made use data drawn from annual reports locally generated banks its subsidiaries. Results linear regressions indicate a positive relationship between b...

This research study investigates the role of board gender diversity in mitigating risk corporate expropriation listed companies Pakistan. For this purpose, data from 2009 to 2019 has been collected for 223 firms randomly selected 24 non-financial sectors. The current used panel analysis techniques i.e. random vs fixed-effect regression models were estimated testing relationship and expropriatio...