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Do women on corporate boards influence corporate social performance? A control function approach

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  • Rey Dang

    (ISTEC - Institut supérieur des Sciences, Techniques et Economie Commerciales - ISTEC)

  • Hocine Houanti

    (Excelia Group | La Rochelle Business School)

  • Jean-Michel Sahut

    (IDRAC Business school Lyon - Institut pour le Développement et la Recherche d'Action Commerciale - Université de Lyon)

  • Michel Simioni

    (UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

Abstract

We examine if women on corporate boards (WOCB) influence a firm's corporate social performance (CSP). To do this, we utilize stakeholder theory. From an empirical standpoint, we use the control function (CF) approach suggested by Wooldridge (2015), which takes into account the issue of endogeneity raised in the literature (namely, omitted variables, reverse causality, and dynamic endogeneity). Using a sample of firms from the S&P 500 between 2004 and 2015, we find that WOCB have a positive and significant effect (at the 5% level) on CSP. We compare our results to more traditional approaches (pooled OLS, the fixed-effects model, and system GMM). We shed light on an issue that is still considered controversial (Byron and Post, 2016).

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  • Rey Dang & Hocine Houanti & Jean-Michel Sahut & Michel Simioni, 2021. "Do women on corporate boards influence corporate social performance? A control function approach," Post-Print hal-02891765, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02891765
    DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2020.101645
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    Control function; Stakeholder theory; Corporate social performance; Corporate social responsibility; Women on corporate boards;
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