Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India

Board diversity has become a major issue within corporate governance where a number of studies seek to explore the impact of diversity on firm performance. The debate focuses on questions such as whether a corporation’s board should reflect the firm’s stakeholders or be more in line with society in...

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Main Author: Khan, Yusra
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41988/
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description Board diversity has become a major issue within corporate governance where a number of studies seek to explore the impact of diversity on firm performance. The debate focuses on questions such as whether a corporation’s board should reflect the firm’s stakeholders or be more in line with society in general. This article uses a sample of listed Indian firms during the period of 2009-2014. Despite that fact that India has gone very far in the liberalization of women, Indian board rooms are still to a large extent dominated by men. Contrary to a number of other studies, this article does not find any significant link between firm performance as measured by Tobin’s Q and Return on Assets (ROA) and female board representation.
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spelling nottingham-419882017-10-13T01:06:59Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41988/ Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India Khan, Yusra Board diversity has become a major issue within corporate governance where a number of studies seek to explore the impact of diversity on firm performance. The debate focuses on questions such as whether a corporation’s board should reflect the firm’s stakeholders or be more in line with society in general. This article uses a sample of listed Indian firms during the period of 2009-2014. Despite that fact that India has gone very far in the liberalization of women, Indian board rooms are still to a large extent dominated by men. Contrary to a number of other studies, this article does not find any significant link between firm performance as measured by Tobin’s Q and Return on Assets (ROA) and female board representation. 2017 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41988/1/KhanYusra-41988.pdf Khan, Yusra (2017) Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
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Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India
title Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India
title_full Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India
title_fullStr Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India
title_full_unstemmed Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India
title_short Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India
title_sort impact of boardroom gender diversity on firm performance: evidence from india
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41988/