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Growth and planning strategies within women‐led SMEs

Mitchelmore, Siwan; Rowley, Jennifer - In: Management Decision 51 (2013) 1, pp. 83-96

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the planning strategies of female entrepreneurs who have indicated a desire to grow their businesses, the time horizons of planning strategies and the relationship between planning horizons and number of employees and annual sales as measures of business...

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A Practical Guide to Gender Neutral Language

Pitt, M.J. - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 6, pp. 41-44

Documents ranging from advertisements to policy statements do not have to be either sexist or clumsily anti‐sexist. There is a middle ground of neutral writing which avoids sex bias, and communicates without giving offence. Analyses the problem and suggests practical ways for management to...

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The foreseeable future

Mercer, David - In: Management Decision 34 (1996) 3, pp. 55-61

Reports the latest stage in a five‐year programme of research involving more than 1,000 large organizations. Describes the results obtained from research conducted on 17 groups containing managers from 140 organizations. Uses a new research technique and reports their expectations of the...

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Women in the boardroom and corporate decisions of Italian listed companies

Rossi, Fabrizio; Hu, Chengru; Foley, Maggie - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 7, pp. 1578-1595

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between women in the board of directors, firm …-year observations, during the period 2005-2013, through a generalized method of moment, the relationship between women in the board of … directors affects corporate decisions. Women in the boardroom affect both financing and investment decisions. In particular, the …

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Gender diversity, financial expertise and its effects on accounting quality

García-Sánchez, Isabel-Maria; Martínez-Ferrero, Jennifer - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 2, pp. 347-382

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether gender diversity on board and financial expertise on audit committee affect accounting conservatism in banking sector. Additionally, the authors focus on the effects of board characteristics on bank earnings quality and examine their...

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Market responses to appointment of women and men as directors : a study of top 40 Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed companies

Mothapo, Maruping J.; Stumke, Olive; Niet, Beitske M. … - In: South African journal of economic and management sciences 27 (2024) 1, pp. 1-11

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