Chen, Ru; Tong, Yixing; Zhang, Feida; Zhou, Gaoguang - 2021
This study examines whether and how female directors enhance innovation performance. Based on a sample of U.S. firms … innovation output and productivity. Our results show that a higher number of female directors are associated with higher … innovation output (measured by the sensitivity of patents and patent citations to R&D) and higher R&D productivity (measured by …