While efforts in the corporate world to promote gender diversity have been ongoing since the 1990s, the representation of women at higher corporate levels is still relatively poor – more than 83 percent of board directors are still male. In new research on women scientists in the oil and gas industry, Kristine Kilanski examines the effectiveness of corporate diversity programs. She finds that d...

The board gender diversity–organizational performance relationship has been criticized for the absence of tests underlying mechanisms this relationship. This study aims to empirically investigate whether task-related conflict – one prime theorized diversity indeed mediates Consistent with literature, we theorize how affects conflict, and in turn organizational performance. We test our hypothese...

The purpose of this paper was to examine the moderating effect board gender diversity on relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and real earnings management (REM). It drowns French listed companies from 2005 2019. results show that there is a positive CSR REM. Our findings also relation moderated in firms with higher diversity, mainly because female directors high socially r...

Manuscript type: Research paper aims: This study examines the effect of board characteristics on earnings management and moderating gender diversity over this nexus by investigating 393 Bursa Malaysia listed companies from 2014 to 2018. Design/Methodology/Approach: applies performance-adjusted Jones model (Dechow et al., 1996) performance-matched (Kothari 2005) measure accrual-based management....

Purpose: This article’s primary purpose is to present and analyze the current state of board gender diversity elaborate on relatively sparse literature in this field Czech Republic, a post-transition Eastern European economy. The described study sought identify comment theoretical views concerning previous research other, mainly Western countries, by highlighting new perspectives diversity. Des...