Liu, Yu; Wei, Zuobao; Xie, Feixue - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 28 (2014) C, pp. 169-184
This paper examines the effect of board gender diversity on firm performance in China's listed firms from 1999 to 2011 …. We document a positive and significant relation between board gender diversity and firm performance. Female executive … directors have a stronger positive effect on firm performance than female independent directors, indicating that the executive …