Does board gender diversity affect firm performance The mediating role of innovation on the French stock market

Manita, Riadh; Elommal, Najoua; Đặng, Rey; Saintives, Camille; L', N.A.; Houanti, Hocine

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2020.104253

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“…The first and foremost challenge is that, in spite of the increase in board diversity literature in the past decade, there is still a lack of focus on all aspects of board diversity. The analysis showed that although the central theme of our search was board diversity, our results revealed that gender diversity to be the most common among the authors' keywords, indicating that most of the prior studies have focused only on gender as an indicator for board diversity (Carter et al, 2003;Detthamrong et al, 2017;Manita et al, 2020;Pidani et al, 2020;Saha and Chandra Kabra, 2019;Sila et al, 2016). Hence, future studies need to consider other diversity attributes and the interaction between them not only gender diversity but also ethnic, national, religion, age diversity, board tenure, board experience and board interlock.…”

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“…Although the central theme of our search was board diversity, our results showed that gender diversity appeared to be most common among the keywords with 421 occurrences and 94 links to others while board diversity was slightly less encountered (210 occurrences, 86 links). This indicates that most of the prior studies focused only on gender as an indicator for board diversity (Carter et al , 2003; Detthamrong et al , 2017; Manita et al , 2020; Pidani et al , 2020; Saha and Chandra Kabra, 2019; Sila et al , 2016). The reason for this concentration is that the regulatory requirements for board diversity typically focused on gender diversity with limited attention on the other aspects of board diversity and, therefore, the researchers’ attention is mostly the same.…”

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Global trends in board diversity research: a bibliometric view

Khatib

Abdullah

Elamer

et al. 2021

MEDAR

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Purpose This study aims to identify the main research development on board diversity and offers a quantitative synopsis of key themes and contributors, knowledge gaps and provides directions for further work. Design/methodology/approach Using a bibliometric analysis, the authors assess the patterns in global board diversity research based on co-occurrences of researchers’ keywords and publication outputs of 991 articles from the Scopus database. Also, the co-citation network analysis was performed to assess the intellectual structure of board diversity research. Findings According to the keyword analysis, the authors found that researchers focus on the gender diversity of the boardroom while ignoring the cognitive diversity and other aspects of demographic diversity such as educational, ethnic, age, nationality, experience, background and tenure, pointing to the need for further work to consider other diversity attributes and the interaction between them. Additionally, board diversity research related to (but not limited to) payout policy, cash holding, initial public offerings, small–medium enterprises and financial institutions is limited. Originality/value This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of the development of board diversity research (using a large archival database) and identifies the common construct as well as the potential opportunities for future research directions.

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Global trends in board diversity research: a bibliometric view

Khatib

Abdullah

Elamer

et al. 2021

MEDAR

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“…The majority agree that there is value in the gender diversity of boards (Galia and Zenou, 2012;Miller and del Carmen Triana, 2009;Nadeem et al, 2019). However, Bass (2019) show that there is no relationship between gender diversity and R&D investment in the healthcare industry in the USA and Manita et al (2020) show a negative influence on product innovation in French firms. In a related study, Biga-Diambeidou et al (2019) use field experiment in France and Germany to show that TMT diversity has no significant impact on firm innovation intensity.…”

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Gender and firm innovation - A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Joseph

2020

IJEBR

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PurposeThis paper presents a systematic review of 94 research articles in the domain of gender and firm innovation to map the area and infer future research avenues. The literature captured in this review includes seven theoretical, 16 qualitative and 71 quantitative studies from over 50 journals, examining the role of gender in firm innovation in over 100 countries.Design/methodology/approachThis research utilises a reproducible systematic literature review process to identify prominent theoretical and empirical studies.FindingsThe findings suggest that the area is growing and presents interesting opportunities. However, it is observed that empirical investigations are primarily influenced by literature from the Anglo-Saxon areas and give little attention to contextual intricacies of emerging market countries. Among quantitative studies, three main themes of gender are addressed unevenly. They are Top Management Team (TMT) diversity level, R&D team diversity level and individual entrepreneur level studies. Six interesting research avenues are proposed as a major outcome of the review.Originality/valueThis review is one of the first of its kind to extensively review the literature of gender and firm-level innovation. The review consolidates and widens the understanding of the relationship between gender variables and firm innovation-related variables to advance the discussion in the domain by presenting research gaps and questions gleaned from the articles. To this end, the review presents six promising research avenues in the area of gender and firm innovation.

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“…According to recent studies, gender diversity within the boardroom is one of the topics in the literature that has been most extensively studied over the last three decades (Khatib et al, 2021;S anchez-Teba et al, 2021). Previous literature has studied the direct effect of the presence of female directors on both firm performance (Cabeza-Garc ıa et al, 2021;Manita et al, 2020;Post and Byron, 2015;Terjesen et al, 2016) and firm innovation (Ain et al, 2022;Attah-Boakye et al, 2020;Cumming and Leung, 2021;Mukarram et al, 2018;Nadeem et al, 2020;Rossi et al, 2017;Saggese and Sarto, 2019;T€ opfer, 2018;Vafaei et al, 2020;Valenti and Horner, 2020), finding positive effects of their presence in boardrooms. The underlying arguments for these positive effects rely on specific qualities of a female director which may be a helpful contribution to the diversity of the whole board (Arena et al, 2015;Galia and Zenou, 2012;Khan et al, 2021;Saggese et al, 2021;Torchia et al, 2011).…”

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“…Previous literature has studied the direct effect of the presence of female directors on both firm performance (Cabeza-García et al. , 2021; Manita et al. , 2020; Post and Byron, 2015; Terjesen et al.…”

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Independent directors and firm innovation: the moderating role of gender and nationality diversity

Sierra-Morán

García²,

González-Álvarez³

2022

EJIM

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PurposeAlthough the literature on corporate governance and firm innovation finds that board independence is important, this paper proposes that the presence of independent directors alone is not enough to explain their impact on firm innovation. This study analyses if diversity among independent directors may affect the relationship between board independence and firm innovation.Design/methodology/approachA panel data on a sample of 124 Spanish listed companies for the period 2008–2019 used to test the hypotheses.FindingsResults suggest that independent directors have a negative effect on firm innovation, measured as number of patents, but when there are high levels of gender and nationality diversity among such directors, this negative effect may be mitigated.Originality/valueConsidering that firm innovation is a complex process associated with decision-making and that board independence itself may be not enough, this study goes a step further and delves deeper into the characteristics of independent directors. As far as is known, this paper is the first theoretical and empirical study that considers that independent director diversity as a moderating variable between board independence and firm innovation. Besides, this research contributes to the debate on the role of independent directors in firm innovation and the results may also serve as a guideline for policy makers and firms for structuring boards that are pro-innovation.

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Does board gender diversity affect firm performance The mediating role of innovation on the French stock market

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Global trends in board diversity research: a bibliometric view

Global trends in board diversity research: a bibliometric view

Gender and firm innovation - A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Independent directors and firm innovation: the moderating role of gender and nationality diversity

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