RT Article
T1 The Impact of Board Diversity and Gender Composition on Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Reputation
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 97
IS 2
SP 207
OP 221
A1 Bear, Stephen
A1 Rahman, Noushi
A1 Post, Corinne
A2 Rahman, Noushi
A2 Post, Corinne
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785640194
AB This article explores how the diversity of board resources and the number of women on boards affect firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings, and how, in turn, CSR influences corporate reputation. In addition, this article examines whether CSR ratings mediate the relationships among board resource diversity, gender composition, and corporate reputation. The OLS regression results using lagged data for independent and control variables were statistically significant for the gender composition hypotheses, but not for the resource diversity-based hypotheses. CSR ratings had a positive impact on reputation and mediated the relationship between the number of women on the board and corporate reputation.
K1 gender composition
K1 boards of directors
K1 Board diversity
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
K1 Corporate Reputation
DO 10.1007/s10551-010-0505-2