Open AccessAntecedents of Female Representation on Corporate Boards: An Exploratory Analysis at Board Level from a Socialized Perspective*
Author(s) -
Rey Đặng,
L’Hocine Houanti,
Frédèric Teulon,
LinhChi Vo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
management international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1918-9222
pISSN - 1206-1697
DOI - 10.7202/1068535ar
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , representation (politics) , attrition , social capital , sample (material) , identity (music) , exploratory research , sociology , demographic economics , social psychology , marketing , psychology , economics , business , political science , social science , mathematics , geometry , politics , law , medicine , chemistry , physics , dentistry , chromatography , acoustics
The literature explaining the representation of women on corporate boards (WOCB) has mainly relied on a rational economic perspective. Our study differs by relying on a socialized perspec-tive that is based on Schneider’s (1987) attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) model, Pfeffer’s (1983) organizational demography framework, and Tajfel and Turner’s (1986) social identity theory. We used a sample of French companies listed in the SBF 120 index during 2006-2010 to explore the impact of following antecedents of WOCB: male directors’ demographic traits, hu-man capital, and social capital.