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Gender Diversity in the Boardroom and Firm Performance: What Exactly Constitutes a "Critical Mass?"

Journal of business ethics, 2013-11, Vol.118 (1), p.61-72 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2013 Springer Science+Business Media ;Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012 ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 ;ISSN: 0167-4544 ;EISSN: 1573-0697 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1553-6 ;CODEN: JBUEDJ

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Title:
Gender Diversity in the Boardroom and Firm Performance: What Exactly Constitutes a "Critical Mass?"
Author: Joecks, Jasmin ; Pull, Kerstin ; Vetter, Karin
Subjects: Artistic representation ; Board of directors ; Boards of directors ; Business and Management ; Business Ethics ; Business structures ; Corporate governance ; Critical mass ; Critical theory ; Education ; Ethics ; Females ; Gender ; Gender equity ; Gender performativity ; Gender studies ; Germany ; Group performance ; Management ; Market value ; Men ; Panel data ; Philosophy ; Quality of Life Research ; Sociology ; Sociology of organizations and enterprises. Bureaucracy and administration ; Sociology of work and sociology of organizations ; Stock exchanges ; Studies ; Women
Is Part Of: Journal of business ethics, 2013-11, Vol.118 (1), p.61-72
Description: The under-representation of women on boards is a heavily discussed topic—not only in Germany. Based on critical mass theory and with the help of a hand-collected panel dataset of 151 listed German firms for the years 2000-2005, we explore whether the link between gender diversity and firm performance follows a U-shape. Controlling for reversed causality, we find evidence for gender diversity to at first negatively affect firm performance and—only after a "critical mass" of about 30 % women has been reached—to be associated with higher firm performance than completely male boards. Given our sample firms, the critical mass of 30 % women translates into an absolute number of about three women on the board and hence supports recent studies on a corresponding "magic number" of women in the boardroom.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0167-4544
EISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1553-6
CODEN: JBUEDJ
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
Alma/SFX Local Collection
ProQuest Central

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Gender Diversity in the Boardroom and Firm Performance: What Exactly Constitutes a "Critical Mass?"

2013 Springer Science+Business Media ;Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012 ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 ;ISSN: 0167-4544 ;EISSN: 1573-0697 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1553-6 ;CODEN: JBUEDJ

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