caa a22 4500 605486158 CHVBK 20210128100444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2166-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2166-z Appointing Women to Boards: Is There a Cultural Bias? [Elektronische Daten] [Amalia Carrasco, Claude Francoeur, Réal Labelle, Joaquina Laffarga, Emiliano Ruiz-Barbadillo] Companies that are serious about corporate governance and business ethics are turning their attention to gender diversity at the most senior levels of business (Institute of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Briefing 21:1, 2011). Board gender diversity has been the subject of several studies carried out by international organizations such as Catalyst (Increasing gender diversity on boards: Current index of formal approaches, 2012), the World Economic Forum (Hausmann et al., The global gender gap report, 2010), and the European Board Diversity Analysis (Is it getting easier to find women on European boards? 2010). They all lead to reports confirming the overall relatively low proportion of women on boards and the slow pace at which more women are being appointed. Furthermore, the proportion of women on corporate boards varies much across countries. Based on institutional theory, this study hypothesizes and tests whether this variation can be attributed to differences in cultural settings across countries. Our analysis of the representation of women on boards for 32 countries during 2010 reveals that two cultural characteristics are indeed associated with the observed differences. We use the cultural dimensions proposed by Hofstede (Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values, 1980) to measure this construct. Results show that countries which have the greatest tolerance for inequalities in the distribution of power and those that tend to value the role of men generally exhibit lower representations of women on boards. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Culture nationallicence Board of directors nationallicence Gender nationallicence Gender diversity nationallicence Diversity nationallicence Cross-country nationallicence Corporate governance nationallicence Carrasco Amalia University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain aut Francoeur Claude HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada aut Labelle Réal HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada aut Laffarga Joaquina University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain aut Ruiz-Barbadillo Emiliano University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 129/2(2015-06-01), 429-444 0167-4544 129:2<429 2015 129 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2166-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2166-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carrasco Amalia University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Francoeur Claude HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Labelle Réal HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Laffarga Joaquina University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ruiz-Barbadillo Emiliano University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 129/2(2015-06-01), 429-444 0167-4544 129:2<429 2015 129 10551