Does gender matter? female representation on corporate boards and firm financial performance - A meta-analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Pletzer, Jan Luca ^a,b   Nikolova, Romina ^a,c   Kedzior, Karina Karolina ^a,d   Voelpel, Sven Constantin ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INCOME; META ANALYSIS; PEER REVIEW; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEXISM;

COMMERCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SEXISM; WORK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84939225773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130005     Document Type: Article

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