TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender faultline strength on boards of directors and strategic change
T2 - the role of environmental conditions
AU - Wu, Jie
AU - Triana, Maria
AU - Richard, Orlando
AU - Yu, Luman
N1 - Open Access via Jisc Sage Agreement
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Xinhe Zhang for her contributions to earlier versions of this article
PY - 2021/6/1
Y1 - 2021/6/1
N2 - Drawing on the notion of “faultlines” and the upper echelons perspective, we argue that the gender faultline strength of a board of directors (BOD) is negatively related to strategic change. More interestingly, while gender faultline strength negatively relates to strategic change under low levels of environmental complexity, environmental dynamism, and environmental munificence, it is positively related to strategic change when environmental complexity, environmental dynamism, and environmental munificence are at high levels. The analyses of panel data of 5,781 firm-year observations of 1,171 Chinese firms provide support for the hypotheses.
AB - Drawing on the notion of “faultlines” and the upper echelons perspective, we argue that the gender faultline strength of a board of directors (BOD) is negatively related to strategic change. More interestingly, while gender faultline strength negatively relates to strategic change under low levels of environmental complexity, environmental dynamism, and environmental munificence, it is positively related to strategic change when environmental complexity, environmental dynamism, and environmental munificence are at high levels. The analyses of panel data of 5,781 firm-year observations of 1,171 Chinese firms provide support for the hypotheses.
KW - board of directors
KW - demographic faultlines
KW - gender faultline strength
KW - strategic change
KW - upper echelons
KW - demographic fault lines
KW - gender fault line strength
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U2 - 10.1177/1059601121992889
DO - 10.1177/1059601121992889
M3 - Article
VL - 46
SP - 564
EP - 601
JO - Group & Organization Management: An International Journal
JF - Group & Organization Management: An International Journal
SN - 1059-6011
IS - 3
ER -