Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate debt-like compensation and the value of excess cash holdings. Design/methodology/approach: The environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure score provided by Bloomberg is used as a proxy for the...

Women on corporate boards have been the subject of an abundant literature (theoretical and empirical) in many countries, mainly in the United States, in the United Kingdom and in Scandinavian countries. Main results show an average slow progress and relatively low number of women on corporate...

This paper investigates the relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance has been investigated using a panel dataset over the period 2009-2011. Applying quantile regression, we show that board gender diversity has a different effect on firm performance over different points...

The under-representation of female directors in the boardroom where corporate strategic decisions are made has recently become not only an ethical business case but also a public pressure to improve this gender imbalance. While there is some practical evidence to suggest that gender-diverse...

La présence des femmes dans les Conseils d'administration est devenu un enjeu organisationnel majeur du fait des répercussions qui en découlent, à la fois sur le fonctionnement des entreprises (enjeux en termes de diversité) et sur l'ensemble de la société (briser le "plafond de verre")....

Our research aims at exploring individual’s characteristics of women on Boards in the French context. In the first part of our paper, we discuss the different theoretical frameworks which supported the business case of gender diversity on Boards of Directors and expose our hypothesis regarding...

In this article, we conduct a longitudinal study of women’s progress on French corporate boards of directors. We particularly focus on the extent to which women directors have circumvented the glass ceiling. Using a sample of SBF 120 companies over a 10-year period from 2000 to 2009, our...