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...

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...

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...

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...

This paper elaborates whether women bringing their diversity, cross-cultural awareness and transformational leadership skills to corporate boards offer strategic advantages for firms. In the analysis the effect of women in the board room on innovation activity and corporate firm performance as...

This paper examines the effect of board gender diversity on firm performance in China's listed firms from 1999 to 2011. We document a positive and significant relation between board gender diversity and firm performance. Female executive directors have a stronger positive effect on firm...