Good corporate governance is considered a building block of success for microfinance
institutions (MFIs) as it is presumed to help them in achieving their social and financial goals …

The frequency of women occupying the CEO office has increased but remains at low levels,
less than 5% for the Fortune 500 companies. Several studies during the last decade …

The business case for gender diversity in senior and executive positions is compelling.
Studies show that companies that have the best records for promoting women outstrip their …

We examine the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance in
microfinance institutions (MFI) using a self-constructed global dataset on MFIs collected from …

For stakeholders, such as investors and lenders, to appropriately assess a company's
financial performance, the reported accounting earnings must closely reflect the economic …

This study investigates gender diversity among the top managers of Fortune 500 firms and
its effect on agency costs. The study finds that firms with a greater percentage of female …

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a “glass ceiling,” whereby women are under-
represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this …

Given the increasing number of women executives in the top management teams of initial
public offering (IPO) firms, the lack of female-led IPO firms is a curious fact, especially since …

Purpose Based on the significance of context, the purpose of this paper is to investigate a
positive top management team (TMT) gender diversity–productivity relationship derived from …

The objective of this paper is to study whether the presence of women on boards affects the
financial performance of firms. This study builds upon other studies that have earlier tried to …