Female Board Representation and Corporate Acquisition Intensity

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: CHEN, Guoli, CROSSLAND, Craig, HUANG, Sterling
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• الموضوعات: Board characteristics; director gender; mergers and acquisitions; corporate governance; strategic leadership; Accounting; Corporate Finance; Human Resources Management
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1273; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2272/viewcontent/Female_board_representation_and_corporate_acquisition_intensity.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

This study examines the impact of female board representation on firm-level strategic behavior within the domain of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). We build on social identity theory to predict that greater female representation on a firm's board will be negatively associated with both the...