 Women in the top french companies’ boards: female competencies or family business ?Les femmes dans les conseils d'administration du SBF120: qualités féminines ou affaires de famille ?Yves Moulin () and
Sébastien Point
Post-Print from HAL Abstract: Since the 13th of January 2011, French law requires a quota of women in the top French companies' boards. This paper highlights some determinants of the proportion of women in the top French companies quoted on the SBF120 index at the end of 2008. This research has been undertaken at a time when the proportion of women on boards was only dependant on the goodwill of companies themselves. From the perspective of resource dependence theory and new institutional theory, our results show that familial ownership was the sole criteria influencing the proportion of women on boards. This research emphasizes the specificity of the French context, where a few families own a significant portion of shares. Consequently, family-owned companies have a network largely dependent on the family itself, favoring the future generation (male or female) as becoming members of the board. Keywords: Femmes; conseils d'administration; théorie de la dépendance des ressources; théorie néo-institutionnaliste; SBF120; women; company boards; resource dependence theory; new institutional theory; SBF 120 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Revue de Gestion des Ressources Humaines, 2012, N° 83 (1), pp.31-44. ⟨10.3917/grhu.083.0031⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03750428 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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