Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India

Khan, Yusra (2017) Impact of Boardroom Gender Diversity on Firm Performance: Evidence from India. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]

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Abstract

Board diversity has become a major issue within corporate governance where a number of studies seek to explore the impact of diversity on firm performance. The debate focuses on questions such as whether a corporation’s board should reflect the firm’s stakeholders or be more in line with society in general. This article uses a sample of listed Indian firms during the period of 2009-2014. Despite that fact that India has gone very far in the liberalization of women, Indian board rooms are still to a large extent dominated by men. Contrary to a number of other studies, this article does not find any significant link between firm performance as measured by Tobin’s Q and Return on Assets (ROA) and female board representation.

Item Type: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Depositing User: Awang, Norhasniza
Date Deposited: 18 Apr 2017 08:41
Last Modified: 13 Oct 2017 01:06
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/41988

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