Diversité du genre dans le Conseil d’Administration des ETI françaises: quelle masse critique de femmes pour influer sur la performance financière ?

Catherine Mercier-Suissa (), Charbel Salloum () and Pascale Levet
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Catherine Mercier-Suissa: Université de Lyon, MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon
Charbel Salloum: USEK - Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik
Pascale Levet: MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon

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Abstract: This study aims to analyze the relationship between gender diversity in the boardroom and companies' overall financial performance. Our focus bears on the impact of the increase of women sitting on the boards of French medium-sized companies (ETI) has on their performance. Our research is supported by an unbalanced panel of 965 firm-year observations of 173 boards of directors from publicly traded French ETIs (Euronext and Alternext). Our findings support the thesis that an increase in the number of female directors on the board has a positive impact on companies' financial performance. Our findings are in line with the critical mass and Token status theories. The more women there are in the boardroom, the better the company's financial performance will be.

Keywords: Democracy; Gender diversity; ETI; Financial Performance; Boards of directors; démocratie; diversité du genre; Performance Financière; Conseil d'administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in @GRH, 2018, 2018/4 (29), pp.9-29. ⟨10.3917/grh.184.0009⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/grh.184.0009

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