1683: Is it a Man’s World?: Performance Consequences of Gender Diverse Top Management Team (15560)

Monday, August 12, 2024

16:45 – 18:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Hyatt: Toronto

Session Number: 1683
Paper Session
Orientation: International,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/D86Yv9

Author(s)

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Farhad Uddin Ahmed

Assistant Professor in International Business at Maynooth U. Ireland, Ireland
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Jia Li

Swansea U.
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Natasha Evers

Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Mohammad Jasim Uddin

Coastal Carolina U., United States
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Md Imtiaz Mostafiz

U. of Leicester, Leicester, UK, United Kingdom
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Md Nafizur Rahman

Bangladesh U. of Professonals

Drawing upon upper echelon theory (UE), we examine how strategic renewal impacts the relationship between top management team (TMT) composition – team size and team gender diversity – and early internationalizing firms’ (EIFs) performance. Utilizing a sample of 195 EIFs, derived from the Bangladeshi apparel industry, we test these hypothesized relationships. We find that the TMT size and team gender diversity positively affects EIFs’ performance and that strategic renewal mediates the relationship between team gender diversity and EIFs performance. Our study advances theoretical understanding by demonstrating the strategic renewal and performance consequences of gender diversity in TMT.

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