Gender in Management: Volume 37 Issue 5

Feminine traits improve transformational leadership advantage: investigation of leaders’ gender traits, sex and their joint impacts on employee contextual performance

Shu-Chen Chen, Jieqi Shao

This research aims to examine the indirect relationship between feminine traits and employee contextual performance through transformational leadership. Additionally, it explored…

Female directors and environmental innovation: is stakeholder orientation a missing link?

Yu Wang, Xiaoying Chang, Tienan Wang, Shanshan Wang

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of stakeholder orientation in mediating the impact of female directors on environmental innovation. The authors argue that…

Gender and financial performance in SMEs in emerging economies

Christian Espinosa-Méndez, Alejandra Inostroza Correa

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how chief executive officer (CEO) gender relates to financial performance in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a Latin American…

Female representation on boards of directors and environmental disclosure: evidence of the Brazilian GHG protocol program

Sarah Amaral Fabrício, Denize Demarche Minatti Ferreira, Suliani Rover

This study aims to identify a relationship between the presence of women on the board of directors (BOD) of Brazilian companies and the firms’ disclosure and participation in…

Occupational identity, work, psychological distress and gender in management: results from SALVEO study

Salima Hamouche, Alain Marchand

This paper aims to examine the contribution of occupational identity and gender in explaining psychological distress among managers. It proposes and tests empirically a…

Digital identities of female founders and crowdfunding performance: an exploration based on the LDA topic model

Yalin Wang, Yaokuang Li, Juan Wu

This paper aims to investigate female founders’ digital identities (i.e. the founder’s online self-representation) and explore how female founders’ digital identities affect…

Work–family decisions: exploring the role of racial variation

Xuguang Guo, Preeti Wadhwa

Drawing on gender role ideology and structuralism perspectives, this study examines the impact of racial variation on the relationship between family characteristics and…