We provide robust evidence that stocks of the firms with gender-diverse boards experienced higher abnormal returns …. Our findings are consistent with the view that market interpreted board gender diversity as a positive signal regarding …

emphasis on board gender diversity.Design/methodology/approach – We exploit a novel measure of takeover vulnerability based on ….Findings – Our results show that a more active takeover market leads to lower board gender diversity. Specifically, a rise in … takeover vulnerability by one standard deviation results in a decline in board gender diversity by 10.01%. Moreover, stronger …

(BOD) has a significant influence on organizational innovation, we resolve this issue by conceptualizing TMT-BOD gender … gender diversity and BOD gender diversity such that innovation is greatest when both are high. The positive TMT-BOD gender … show that high levels of TMT and BOD gender diversity result in more organizational innovation, which ultimately improves …