Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312841 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Management and Governance [ISSN:] 1572-963X [Volume:] 28 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 841-874
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We analyze the impact of women on corporate boards of directors on product quality. We innovate firstly by integrating the broad but fragmented research on the topic, offering a first simultaneously testing of a larger set of variables identified to be significant in earlier studies. Second, we add alternative indicators of female representation in board of directors as a potential determinant of product quality. Third, we use evaluation scores of goods by the nonprofit foundation "Stiftung Warentest" as a quality indicator, thus adding to a regionally diversified evidence. We find a significant positive effect of female board directors on product quality.
Subjects: 
Gender equality
Women ratio
Women on boards of directors
Product quality
Product reliability
Consumer reports
JEL: 
C30
L21
L25
C13
J16
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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