This research investigates the relationship between board gender diversity and firm financial performance in the context of a transitional economy characterised by an underdeveloped corporate governance system. Using a sample of 120 publicly listed companies in Vietnam covering a 4-year period...

We investigate the relation between board gender diversity and firm profitability using the control function (CF) approach recently suggested by Wooldridge (2015). The CF method takes account of the problem of endogenous explanatory variables that have potential to bias the results. Using a...

The range of themes and rationales for the understanding of the roles of boards of directors (BoDs), as discussed in the corporate governance literature, is investigated in this paper. A comprehensive survey of the literature indicates that the roles of BoDs are not well articulated, specified...