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Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms

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Nina Smith () (Aarhus School of Business, CIM and IZA Bonn)
Valdemar Smith (Aarhus School of Business and University of Copenhagen)
Mette Verner (Aarhus School of Business and CIM)

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Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and on boards of directors. We use data for the 2500 largest Danish firms observed during the period 1993-2001 and find that the proportion of women in top management jobs tends to have positive effects on firm performance, even after controlling for numerous characteristics of the firm and direction of causality. The results show that the positive effects of women in top management depend on the qualifications of female top managers.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1708.

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Keywords: firm performance female CEOs board diversity gender diversity

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G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Social Responsibility

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  1. Linda A. Bell, 2005. "Women-Led Firms and the Gender Gap in Top Executive Jobs," IZA Discussion Papers 1689, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  2. Du Rietz, Anita & Henrekson, Magnus, 2000. " Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 1-10, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Morten Bennedsen & Kasper Nielsen & Francisco Pérez-González & Daniel Wolfenzon, 2005. "Inside the Family Firm: The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance," CIE Discussion Papers 2005-13, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Industrial Economics, revised Sep 2005. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Antonio Mínguez Vera & Kevin Campbell, 2007. "The Influence Of Gender On Spanish Boards Of Directors: An Empirical Analysis," Working Papers. Serie EC 2007-08, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie). [Downloadable!]
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