Gender Diversity in the Boardroom and Firm Performance: What Exactly Constitutes a “Critical Mass?”

By J. Joecks, Kerstin Pull, Karin Vetter. Journal of Business Ethics, 2012

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Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Accounting

1. H. Farag
2. C. Mallin
3. P. McIlkenny
4. Millicent Chang
5. W. Ben‐Amar

In Gender Studies

1. C. Mallin
2. H. Farag
3. P. McIlkenny
4. Millicent Chang
5. W. Ben‐Amar

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. P. McIlkenny
2. Millicent Chang
3. W. Ben‐Amar
4. C. Mallin
5. H. Farag

Citations in the corpus

• Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Response to Sustainability Initiatives: Evidence from the Carbon Disclosure Project (2015, positive): “Following Joecks et al. (2013), we also explored whether the relation between board gender diversity and voluntary climate change disclosure is U shaped.”
• Board diversity and financial fragility: Evidence from European banks (2017, positive): “Drawing on the critical mass theory of Kanter (1977), Joecks et al (2013) argue that the influence of female directors is not the main determinant of board composition unless a critical mass of female directors has been appointed.”
• Product Innovation and Educational Diversity in Top and Middle Management Teams (2020, neutral): “Works building on the upper echelons theory have explicitly associated the effects of diversity with TMTs (Eesley et al. 2014, Campbell and Minguez-Vera 2007, Joecks et al. 2013, Miller and del Carmen Triana 2009).”
• Composition and Activity of the Board of Directors: Impact on ESG Performance in the Banking System (2018, positive): “Additionally, Joecks et al. [23] show that only a critical mass of about 30%, which corresponds to three women on the board, is associated with higher financial performance.”
• Does Board Gender Diversity Influence Financial Performance? Evidence from Spain (2015, neutral): “Nevertheless, according to the arguments of Joecks et al. (2013), these studies that suggest a negative or no influence of the number of women on company performance may be affected by an overall low or high female representation which invalidates their results.”