Are Female Executives Over-represented in Precarious Leadership Positions?

By S. Adams, Atul Gupta, John D. Leeth. 2009

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CEO gender, executive compensation and firm performance in Chinese‐listed enterprises (2013, background): “Interestingly, Adams et al. (2009) find little evidence of such an effect in the United States.”
Corporate governance: the impact of director and board structure, ownership structure and corporate control on the performance of listed companies on the Ghana stock exchange (2016, background): “(e.g. Adams et al. 2009; Campbell and Mínguez-Vera 2008; Farrell and Hersch 2005; Carter et al. 2003; Erhardt et al. 2003).”
Female executives and earnings management (2010, background): “Adams et al. (2009) focus on the stock market performance of firms with newly appointed CEOs, and document that the gender of the CEO does not affect the post-appointment performance.”
Beyond the Glass Ceiling: The Glass Cliff and Its Lessons for Organizational Policy (2014, background): “For example, Adams, Gupta, and Leeth (2009) examined the relationship between the appointment of male versus female CEOs at US Fortune 500 corporations and company performance using accountancy-based measures that capture relatively objective measures of a profitability, such as companies’ return…”
A maze of metaphors around glass ceilings (2012, background): “They found a reverse pattern whereby females are more likely to be appointed to CEO positions in times of financial success and therefore rejected that a glass cliff problem existed (Adams et al., 2009).”