 Structural power of female executives and retailer profitability: A contingent resource-based perspectiveCong Feng and Kexin Xiang Journal of Business Research, 2023, vol. 168, issue C Abstract: Although the retail sector already has a much larger presence of female executives than other industry sectors, it remains unclear whether female executives should be endowed with more power to be effective leaders in the top management team (TMT) of a retail organization. Drawing on the TMT structural power perspective, we argue that structural power of female executives (SPFE) is crucial to improve a retailer’s operating performance measured by profitability. We find that SPFE is indeed positively associated with retailer profitability. Further, drawing on the contingent resource-based view, we hypothesize and find that comparable store sales and industry munificence positively, while inventory turnover negatively, moderate the relationship between SPFE and retailer profitability. Taken together, our research has important implications for public retailers to manage their TMT composition and power allocation. Keywords: Female executives; Retailer performance; Top management teams; Structural power; Resource-based contingencies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:168:y:2023:i:c:s0148296323004964 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114137 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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