The Effects of Women on Corporate Boards on Firm Value, Financial Performance, and Ethical and Social Compliance

By Helena Isidro, M. Sobral. 2015

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Board diversity and firm performance: evidence from the U.K. SMEs (2017, background): “Isidro and Sobral (2015) found that women on the board are positively related to financial performance in top EU firms.”
Corporate governance and firm performance in emerging markets: Evidence from Turkey (2019, background): “corporate web pages Isidro and Sobral (2015); Ellwood and Garcia-”
CSR Committees and Their Effect on ESG Performance in UK, France, Germany, and Spain (2019, methodology): “The drivers of ESG performance are diverse, so we used control variables similar to those used in other studies [50]: board independence, board size, CEO-Chair separation, firm size, return on assets (ROA), and debt ratio.”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Gender Diversity: Insights from Asia Pacific (2017, background): “To increase female participation in board rooms, governments and regulators around the world have recently started intervening (Isidro & Sobral, 2014).”
Women in the boardroom and their impact on climate change related disclosure (2017, background): “In this case, women are more sensitive to social and ethical issues (Bear et al., 2010; Hafsi and Turgut, 2013; Isidro and Sobral, 2015; Al-Shaer and Zaman, 2016).”