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Corporate Sustainability: The Impact of Corporate Leadership Gender On Year-Over-Year Performance by Jennoa R. Graham, PhD May 2019 Chair: Danny Bellenger Major Academic Unit: Executive Doctorate in Business Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions in the global market. There has been limited research on the impact of female leaders’ influence on corporate sustainability over time. This paper contributes to the literature addressing leaders’ gender, corporate sustainability, and business ethics. Previous scholars have suggested the long-term effectiveness of corporate sustainability improves when females are in corporate leadership positions because of gender differences in business strategy and ethical considerations influenced by social roles. In this quantitative study, the relationships between corporate leaders’ gender and their companies’ financial, environmental, social, and governance performance over 4 years were examined. Such an examination of how leaders’ genders influence financial and nonfinancial constructs is unprecedented in a single study. In this research, I also introduce a paradigm shift in defining and analyzing corporate sustainability constructs to create a holistic view of equal consideration of financial and nonfinancial performance. The evidence suggests the impact of female leaders on year-over-year sustainability is significantly greater than that of their male counterparts across several performance outcomes, industries, and time periods. Due to the small sample size, the effect is small; however, enough information is available to successfully test

Corporate Sustainability: The Impact of Corporate Leadership Gender on Year Over Year Performance