Gender in Management: Volume 38 Issue 3

Do you know when you are the punchline? Gender-based disparagement humor and target perceptions

Ayesha Tabassum, Len Karakowsky

This paper aims to draw upon extant theory and research to delineate the fundamental factors that impact how women evaluate disparaging humor directed at them. The conceptual…

Role of female leadership in corporate innovation: a systematic literature review

Amir Khushk, Zhang Zengtian, Yang Hui

This study aims to explore how female leadership contributes to corporate innovation through a systematic literature review. The authors provide a framework based on empirical…

Global perspectives on gender diversity and business performance

Sam H.L. Fouad, Nadya A. Fouad, Xu Li, Juliana Carvalho

Based on the resource-based theory, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between operational employment levels of gender diversity and business performance…

You have kids? How being a parent influences status and trust in the workplace

Teng Zhang, Andrew T. Soderberg

This paper aims to examine how individuals are perceived by their coworkers, specifically how individuals’ gender and parental status affect how much social status they are…

Determinants of entrepreneurial performance of rural indigenous women entrepreneurs in Sarawak, Malaysia

Ching Seng Yap, William Keling, Poh Ling Ho

This study aims to explore the influence of internal and external factors on the entrepreneurial performance of rural indigenous women entrepreneurs (RIWEs) in Sarawak.

On the influence of gender quotas on the employer attractiveness of companies – Do the means harm the ends?

Philipp Schäpers, Talea Stolte, Henrik Heinemann

To increase the share of women in the top management of companies, legal gender quotas are increasingly being introduced worldwide. Their effect, however, especially on perceived…

The gender diversity–performance linkage at the board of directors and the workforce levels: testing two competing curvilinear models

Irene Campos-García, José Ángel Zúñiga-Vicente

The use of linear models has major limitations for accurately representing the true link between gender diversity and organizational performance. This study aims to explore two…

Top management team gender diversity and the financial performance of Vietnamese SMEs: family and non-family owned firms

Nhat Minh Tran, Que Giang Ngo, Quyet Thang Tran

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the gender diversity of top management teams (TMTs) on the financial performance (FP) of small and medium enterprises…

Investigating the impact of sensitivity to terrorism on employee psychological well-being: the mediating role of psychological resilience

Shuaib Ahmed Soomro, Olivier Roques, Thomas Garavan, Akhtiar Ali

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between employee sensitivity to terrorism (STT), employee psychological well-being (EPW) and the mediating role of…