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The Study on the Effect of Female Directors on the Behavior and Performance of the Listed Companies in China

Author: ZhuLing
Tutor: HeJie
School: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Course: Business management
Keywords: Female Directors Level of education The Board acts Corporate Performance
CLC: F272
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract


At present, foreign academic research in the female director has made great progress, but China is still rare scholars gender characteristics of board members. This paper adopts systematic sampling approach, from 2006 Shenzhen and Shanghai and Shenzhen listed companies from a sample of 1,227 companies, according to the annual reports of listed companies disclose the relevant information, investigation and analysis of Chinese listed companies female directors, supervisors and senior executives of the proportion and working conditions, comparative study of Chinese listed company executives in office gender differences. The results show that listed companies in China, the proportion of women in high-level representation of 13.72%; female board members in the proportion of 9.79%; women in key positions on the proportion of low and has not changed much deputies, less principal traditional status. In addition, women directors higher level of education, while slightly less than the average age of senior women executives males. In this paper, a sample of which 1227 enterprises influencing factors of female directors, female directors that the distribution by sectors, mainly for women in the service industry, higher rates of female employment in the industry and emerging industries a higher proportion of female directors ; to a sample of 728 manufacturing enterprises, research director of women drawn by firm size distribution of the impact, noting that with the expansion of the scale, with the proportion of women directors of the company increases, no female directors be reduced proportion of companies . This paper analyzes a sample of 1,227 companies on the Board of Directors of female behavior, and to study the female directors and corporate performance relationship, on the basis of further analysis of the level of education of women on boards and female top managers of the company behavior and performance effects. This article pointed out that women directors of listed companies in China Board of behavior is not obvious, female directors on firm performance have a more significant negative impact; But the average female director general level of education and women can weaken this negative impact. In this paper, the performance of female directors and corporate relationship between the empirical analysis of the distribution of female directors to analyze the situation, pointing out that the low percentage of women on the board of the company specific reasons, including theoretical, cultural and institutional level causes; analysis pointed out Distribution of female directors and firm size by industry characteristics affecting the cause, then the female directors on the Board of Directors obvious behavioral effects, have a negative impact on firm performance made to explain, and that the average level of education of women on boards and female general manager can weaken this kind of negative impact causes. In this paper on innovative topics in the domestic field of economics, research director for women set a precedent for women's studies and economics research board structure while providing a new perspective for the study of Chinese women directors and females Tube brings inspiration and help. Based on the study of women on boards and corporate performance when the correlation is not only from the perspective of gender identity, but rather leads to academic characteristics and board structure features comprehensive analysis of the process of enriching the statistical analysis, and the exclusion of the only gender This property features univariate think in terms of limitations.

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