This study aims to examine the impact of gender diversity in the Board of Directors (BOD) on the firm performance-return of assets (ROA) and return of equity (ROE)-using a sample of Palestinian non-financial companies for the period 2008-2015. Gender diversity was measured as a percentage of...

Purpose: We investigate the impact of board diversity on initial public offering underpricing and firm value. Design/methodology/approach: We examine the relationship between board diversity and IPO underpricing by collecting data on the board size and composition of 470 IPOs listed on the Korea...

This study provides pioneering empirical evidence on board gender diversity and firm performance relationship for the case of large-scale agri-food companies in Russia. While Russia plays an important role in the global food security, its domestic agri-food production is heavily dependent on...

Applying a mixed theoretical approach, this paper addresses the causal relationship between the presence of women on steering committees (SC) and in senior management positions and the firm's stock return, measured through the price-earnings ratio (P/E). To do so, we disaggregate the composition...

This study examined the relationship between corporate governance and the financial performance of insurance firms in Kenya over the period 2013-2018. The data were collected from 51 Insurance firms licensed to operate in Kenya as of 31 December 2018. Regression analysis was used and the results...

The so far conducted studies have not been able to answer the question of whether there is a relationship between gender composition of the board and the firms financial performance. Because of the tendency to legally regulate the gender balance of boards of directors as it was, among others,...

The main objective of this research is to analyse the relationship between the board of director' structure of the banks from the Romanian bank sector, the capital demands and the risk management in what concerns these relationships. Regarding the structure of the board of directors, their size...

Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and on boards of directors. We use data for the 2500 largest Danish firms observed during the period...

The paper proceeds from the assumption that the inequalities of opportunity between men and women on the labor market and in society overall tend to consolidate in the management bodies of large companies. The predominance of men on the supervisory boards of Germany's largest private sector...

Executive and supervisory boards of large companies in Germany are still dominated by men - to an extraordinary degree. Only 2.5% of all executive board members in the200 largest companies (not including the financial sector) are women, and only 10% of all seats on supervisory boards are...