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gender equality is aligned with shareholder interests. This positive effect is not explained by increased risk-taking or …
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organizational and group-level behavior theories and empirically investigates how ex-ante board structures and gender-specific board … director appointments are gender specific and suggest that demand-side factors such as explicit and implicit norms drive women …
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hypotheses for how cultural norms and national institutions might influence the gender-typing of occupations. These are tested by … indicate that girls develop gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations in response to structural education and labor market … differences across countries, while boys' gender-(a)typical aspirations are mainly influenced by country variations in normative …
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Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to … perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with …
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approach does not work. We use a natural experiment to test the idea that organizational norms supporting gender diversity are … necessary for representation on “selectorates” to promote gender diversity among STEM leaders. Our empirical setting is the … gender diversity. …
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In this paper, we explore the long-run effects of cultural and imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Drawing evidence from the 1897 population census in the Russian Empire, we find that localities with a higher share of German historical population are inclined to be more developed in...
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In this study, we address the question of why some CEOs stay in office during a performance downturn while others don't. Based on a social capital perspective we assume that (1) the social capital endowment of an underperforming CEO may reduce the risk of getting dismissed and that (2) the...
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Banks in bad financial shape are more likely to appoint executive directors from the outside than those in good shape. It is, however, not clear whether all of these appointments necessarily lead to the desired turnaround. We analyze the performance effects of new board members with external...
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