This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of gender diverse boards on financial performance in large listed Indian companies by taking a resource dependency perspective. Gender diverse board is measured by presence of the independent female director on the board. Further, financial...

In this paper, we have developed a corporate governance index for 500 large listed Indian firms from 2008 to 2011. The index construction utilizes information on six important corporate governance mechanisms namely the board of directors, the audit committee, the board committees and disclosure...