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Women directors on boards of Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts
Dimovski, William; Lombardi, Luisa; Cooper, Barry - In: Journal of Property Investment & Finance 31 (2013) 2, pp. 196-207
Purpose – This is the first paper which aims to investigate factors that might influence the gender composition of boards of directors of Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts (A‐REITs). Design/methodology/approach – This study follows Mateos de Cabo, Gimeno and Nieto and the gender...
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Gender differences and audit committee diligence
Thiruvadi, Sheela - In: Gender in Management: An International Journal 27 (2012) 6, pp. 366-379
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between the presence of females on the audit committee and the number of audit committee meetings. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a multivariate regression model to examine the association between gender on the...
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The pre‐ and post‐IPOs gender composition of board of directors in Malaysia
Ahmad‐Zaluki, Nurwati A. - In: Gender in Management: An International Journal 27 (2012) 7, pp. 449-462
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the gender composition of the board of directors of Malaysian initial public offering (IPO) companies. This study also examines the business case for having women on boards. Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of 228 IPO...
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Women directors and IPO underpricing: evidence from Indian markets
Handa, Rekha; Singh, Balwinder - In: Gender in Management: An International Journal 30 (2015) 3, pp. 186-205
Purpose – This paper aims to fill the gap of the relatively under-researched impact of women directors on initial public offering (IPO) underpricing in developing countries. Gender diversity is an important emerging issue within the corporate governance literature. Recently, there has been a...
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The gender composition of boards after an IPO
Dimovski, William; Brooks, Robert - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 6 (2006) 1, pp. 11-17
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the change in the gender composition of the boards of large Australian companies, after listing. Design/methodology/approach – This study investigates the gender composition of the boards of large Australian companies at the time...
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Flexibility trap – the effects of flexible working on the position of female professionals and managers within a corporate environment
Formánková, Lenka; Křížková, Alena - In: Gender in Management: An International Journal 30 (2015) 3, pp. 225-238
“double” tokenism of the women working in the leadership positions and at the same time in flexible working arrangements in …
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Gendering innovation process in an industrial plant – revisiting tokenism, gender and innovation
Poutanen, Seppo; Kovalainen, Anne - In: International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 5 (2013) 3, pp. 257-274
process is the encapsulation of a token position. The article expands and deepens the tokenism theory through a discussion of … approaches to Acker's theory of gendered organisations and processes within organisations, and Moss Kanter's tokenism theory. The … tokenism”. Design/methodology/approach – The article builds on an intensive single case study and uses a narrative methodology …
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Assessing burnout in diversity and inclusion professionals
Pemberton, Andrea; Kisamore, Jennifer - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 42 (2022) 1, pp. 38-52
experiences of tokenism, and top management support. Measures were administered online via Qualtrics. Findings Results suggest … lack of clear job duties, conflicting job demands, lack of top management support, and experiences of tokenism are … experiences are associated with role dysfunctions, top management support, and subjective experiences of tokenism.  …
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Auswirkungen von Mehrfachmandaten deutscher Vorstands- und Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender auf den Unternehmenserfolg / The Impact of Multiple Board Memberships of CEOs and Chairmen of S...
Balsmeier, Benjamin; Buchwald, Achim; Peters, Heiko - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 230 (2010) 5, pp. 547-570
Summary Members of management boards as well as supervisory boards often attract public criticism when they are simultaneously active in several other boards. We use a panel data set of the biggest German corporations for the period from 1996-2006 to estimate the impact of multiple board...
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The governance-performance relationship: evidence from Ghana
Owusu, Andrews; Weir, Charlie - In: Journal of Applied Accounting Research 17 (2016) 3, pp. 285-310
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact corporate governance, measured by a governance index, on the performance of listed firms in a developing economy, Ghana. It also evaluates the effect of the introduction of a code of corporate governance on compliance rates across...
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