The paper investigates the impact of ownership concentration on the likelihood that firms are involved in innovative activities or invest in research and development. We find that more dispersed ownership significantly increases the probability that a firm is engaged in innovation or invests in...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between management diversity and firm performance in the case of women in top executive jobs and on boards of directors. Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This...

This paper examines the gender earnings gap at the executive level on a unique data set of Danish <p> executives in the period 1992-1995. Ordinary wage equations show that the wage gap disappears <p> when controlling for “Who you are”, “Where you work” and “What you do”. Additionally, <p>...</p></p></p>