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The Impact of Female Director Representation on Corporate ESG Rating Performance: An Empirical Study

In: Proceedings of the 2024 4th International Conference on Enterprise Management and Economic Development (ICEMED 2024)

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  • Xinyu Ma

    (Shandong University, School of Business)

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Enhancing the green transition of enterprises constitutes a pivotal endeavor for the salubrious advancement of the Chinese economy. The integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) concepts, alongside progressively refined rating methodologies, furnish an imperative tool for corporations to implement initiatives within these domains. Additionally, this framework offers investors more robust quantitative data to inform their decisions. This study, pivoting on the governance influence of female board members, leverages ESG ratings from SynTao Green to scrutinize data from companies listed on the Chinese A-share market over the period of 2018-2022. Employing panel data regression analysis, this investigation seeks to discern the impact imparted by the proportion of female directors on ESG ratings, and empirically study the effects that the representation of female directors has on the performance of ESG ratings of enterprises, specifically considering the nature and age of the enterprises. The findings suggest that the proportion of female directors affects the ESG ratings of enterprises. Specifically, the higher the proportion of female directors, the better the ESG rating performance of the company. Nevertheless, the influence exerted by the type of enterprise and the company age on the magnitude of the impact attributable to female directorship does not prove to be statistically significant.

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  • Xinyu Ma, 2024. "The Impact of Female Director Representation on Corporate ESG Rating Performance: An Empirical Study," Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, in: Hongbing Cheng & Sikandar Ali Qalati & Noor Sharoja Binti Sapiei & Mazni Binti Abdullah (ed.), Proceedings of the 2024 4th International Conference on Enterprise Management and Economic Development (ICEMED 2024), pages 217-227, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:advbcp:978-94-6463-506-5_25
    DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-506-5_25
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