Motivated by the growing attention to the financing decisions of family firms, this review
brings together the two highly relevant research fields of family business and finance. This …

The composition of the board of directors is highly relevant to a firm's capital structure and
likelihood of financial distress. This study builds on the complementary proposals of agency …

We conduct a comprehensive synthesis of the research on how female representation in the
upper echelons (ie, top management teams and chief executive officer positions) might …

Since male CEOs dominate corporate leadership, the literature on top management
decision making suffers from an implicit masculine bias. Although research indicates that …

Gender diversity in the C-suite and the boardroom have taken on greater importance in
recent years. We establish a gender-based behavioral dimension to corporate debt maturity …

This paper investigates the extent to which female Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) affect
corporate leverage. We examine female CFOs in UK firms and find that they significantly …

Unlike previous studies in which a single index was used to measure audit quality, this study
establishes a new comprehensive index to measure audit quality via Discretionary Accrual …

This paper investigates the effect of CFO gender on corporate financial reporting decision
making. Focusing on firms that experience changes of CFO from male to female, the paper …

This paper investigates the effect of CFO gender on corporate tax aggressiveness. Focusing
on firms that experience a male-to-female CFO transition, the paper compares those firms' …

We find that firms where women have more power in the top management team, measured
by female executives' plurality and pay slice, face fewer operations-related lawsuits. This …