Gender in Management: Volume 36 Issue 1

Opt-out stories: women’s decisions to leave corporate leadership

Robin Ayers Frkal, Noel Criscione-Naylor

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the challenges to women’s authentic leadership identities contribute to their decisions to abandon leadership positions mid-career. It…

Gender makes the difference: the moderating role of gender on the relationship between management structure and performance in banking

Nikola Stefanovic, Lidija Barjaktarovic

This study aims to explore the factors moderating possibly indirect relationships between gender diversity and its effect on bank performance. The causality of this relationship…

Women on board: the disregarded issue of board interlocks

Christina Öberg

Gender diversity is extensively debated and researched in relation to corporate boards. The focus on the gender composition on single boards neglects an important issue: that of…

Science mapping: a bibliometric analysis of female entrepreneurship studies

Wei Deng, Qiaozhuan Liang, Jie Li, Wei Wang

This bibliometric review aims to display visually the intellectual communities (i.e. the cooperation networks among various countries, institutions, journals and individuals), the…

Gendered institutions and female entrepreneurship: a fuzzy-set QCA approach

Yaokuang Li, Juan Wu, Daru Zhang, Li Ling

This paper aims to examine the contextual embeddedness of female entrepreneurship through a focus on gendered institutions. Specifically, it draws upon Scott’s (1995…

Return to work after maternity leave: the role of support policies on work attitudes of women in management positions

Arianna Costantini, Stephan Dickert, Riccardo Sartori, Andrea Ceschi

This study aims to expand our knowledge on the processes through which work–family policies relate to work–family conflict as well as work–related attitudes among women in…

Formal vs informal demand for credit by women in urban India: a comparative study in slums of Delhi and Mumbai

Shruti Malik, Girish Chandra Maheshwari, Archana Singh

Over the period, the role of finance has emerged significant in the socio-economic development of the women. There are two major types of finances, i.e. formal and informal ones…

Board level (in)visibility and critical mass in South African companies

Ziphozihle Zajiji, Anthony Wilson-Prangley, Dorothy Ndletyana

Women still face barriers that delay their upward mobility in organisations. This study aims to examine whether women experience critical mass as sufficient to shift deep level…