Does board gender diversity affect firm performance? Empirical evidence from Standard & Poor’s 500 Information Technology Sector

Liliana Nicoleta Simionescu (), Ştefan Gherghina, Hiba Tawil () and Ziad Sheikha ()
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Liliana Nicoleta Simionescu: Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Hiba Tawil: Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Ziad Sheikha: Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Financial Innovation, 2021, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-45

Abstract: Abstract The essence of this study is to investigate the influence of the board gender diversity on firms’ accounting and market-based performance using a sample of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies belonging to the information technology sector over 12 years. Using the pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) method, the outcomes provide evidence for a positive influence of women on corporate boards on both measures of company performance, except for the percentage of female executives in the case of return on assets (ROA). After estimating the fixed effects and random-effects through panel data, the econometric outcomes show no statistically significant association among board gender diversity and ROA but a positive influence of the number and percentage of women on board on price-to-earnings ratio.

Keywords: Gender diversity; Firm performance; Pooled OLS; Fixed-effects; Random-effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1186/s40854-021-00265-x

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