International Journal of

Business & Management Studies

ISSN 2694-1430 (Print), ISSN 2694-1449 (Online)
DOI: 10.56734/ijbms
Differences in Gendered CSR Performance Arising from Board of Director Gender Diversity: a Comparison of Industrial Age and Creative Economy Firms

Abstract


Current findings on the effect of gender diverse boards on corporate social responsibility (CSR) are equivocal with some studies demonstrating a positive effect and others reporting a negative or no effect. This paper advances CSR research by studying the impact of board gender diversity on corporate environmental performance and gendered CSR. It compares CSR performance across industrial and creative economy firms. The former tending to be male gender skewed and the latter tending to be female gender skewed promise to more clearly capture the influence of gender on corporate behavior. Our findings indicate creative economy companies perform better than industrial companies on environmental performance and some aspects of gendered CSR such as higher percentages of female managers.