TY - JOUR
T1 - The More, the Merrier?
T2 - Women in Top-Management Teams and Entrepreneurship in Established Firms
AU - Lyngsie, Jacob
AU - Foss, Nicolai Juul
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - We study the association between firms' entrepreneurial outcomes and their gender composition. Though highly topical, there is little solid empirical knowledge of this issue, which calls for an inductive approach. We match a paired-respondent questionnaire survey with population-wide employer-employee data, and find evidence that the presence of female top managers is positively related to entrepreneurial outcomes in established firms. Yet, this relation is conditional on the proportion between male and female top managers. Another finding is that the overall proportion of women in the firm's workforce negatively moderates the relation between female top managers and entrepreneurial outcomes. We discuss various mechanisms that can explain these findings, and argue that they are best understood in terms of the dynamics of social categorization.
AB - We study the association between firms' entrepreneurial outcomes and their gender composition. Though highly topical, there is little solid empirical knowledge of this issue, which calls for an inductive approach. We match a paired-respondent questionnaire survey with population-wide employer-employee data, and find evidence that the presence of female top managers is positively related to entrepreneurial outcomes in established firms. Yet, this relation is conditional on the proportion between male and female top managers. Another finding is that the overall proportion of women in the firm's workforce negatively moderates the relation between female top managers and entrepreneurial outcomes. We discuss various mechanisms that can explain these findings, and argue that they are best understood in terms of the dynamics of social categorization.
KW - Female leadership advantage
KW - Gender composition
KW - Top-management teams
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Social categorization
KW - Female leadership advantage
KW - Gender composition
KW - Top-management teams
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Social categorization
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U2 - 10.1002/smj.2510
DO - 10.1002/smj.2510
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 487
EP - 505
JO - Strategic Management Journal
JF - Strategic Management Journal
SN - 0143-2095
IS - 3
ER -