Gender in Management: Volume 38 Issue 5

Desire to work with woman manager: interplay between sexism and organizational culture

Arda Can Yesilirmak, Ozge Tayfur Ekmekci, Pınar Bayhan Karapinar

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between ambivalent sexism (hostile and benevolent sexism) and managerial choice, considering organizational…

Female directors and corporate cash holdings in the presence of internal dealings

Carolina Bona-Sánchez, Marina Elistratova, Jerónimo Pérez-Alemán

Internal dealings might shape female directors’ incentives to affect corporate financial policies. This study aims to explore what impact female directors have on corporate cash…

Leadership development programmes: part of the solution or part of the problem of women’s under-representation in leadership?

Maria Loumpourdi

This paper aims to critically reflect on current leadership development programmes (LDPs) and their potential in addressing the issue of women’s under-representation in leadership…

Cross-cultural cognitive conditions and gender differences in the entrepreneurial activity during the COVID-19 pandemic

José Carlos Pinho, Elisabete Sá

The purpose of this study is to advance knowledge on the gender-specific conditions that lead to higher entrepreneurial activity (EA) in challenging contexts by examining the…

How do institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition drive female and male entrepreneurship from a configuration perspective?

Chengmeng Chen, Yongchun Huang, Shangshuo Wu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the gender differences in entrepreneurship driven by configurations of institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition, and provide…

A study on barriers to women’s leadership in India through ISM

Aparna Bahar Kulkarni, Ritesh Khatwani, Mahima Mishra

This study aims to identify the critical barriers to women’s leadership in Indian corporate sector using the interpretive structural modeling (ISM) approach.

A longitudinal study investigating changing implicit leadership theory in an Irish business school

Elaine Berkery, Nuala F. Ryan

The purpose of this study is to investigate changing implicit leadership theories (ILTs) within a business student population over a ten-year period.