Titre :

Do women drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from gender diversity reforms around the world

Auteur(s) :

Ding, Rong [Auteur]
Neoma Business School [NEOMA]
Duan, Tinghua [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Hou, Wenxuan [Auteur]
Liu, Xianda [Auteur]
Xu, Ziwei [Auteur]
University of Edinburgh [Edin.]

Titre de la revue :

International Review of Law and Economics

Pagination :

106097

Éditeur :

Elsevier [1981-....]

Date de publication :

2022-12

ISSN :

0144-8188

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Gender diversity reform
CSR performance
Gender equality
Corporate governance

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Gestion et management

Résumé en anglais : [en]

In this study we investigate the effect of female director on corporate social responsibility (CSR) by taking the advantage of the introduction of legal gender quota that led to the exogenous change in the female representation ...
Lire la suite >In this study we investigate the effect of female director on corporate social responsibility (CSR) by taking the advantage of the introduction of legal gender quota that led to the exogenous change in the female representation in corporate board around the world. We find that the “gender quote” reforms effectively increase gender diversity and improve CSR performance. When comparing the legislation-based regulations with governance code-based regulations, we find that the former brings stronger effects on CSR performance. Finally, the effects are more pronounced in countries with higher gender equality or common law legal systems.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Lille Économie Management (LEM) - UMR 9221

Source :

Harvested from HAL