Board Gender Diversity and Environmental, Social & Governance Performance of US Banks: Moderating role of Environmental Social and Corporate Controversies

SHAKIL, Mohammad Hassan, TASNIA, Mashiyat and MOSTAFIZ, Md Imtiaz (2020). Board Gender Diversity and Environmental, Social & Governance Performance of US Banks: Moderating role of Environmental Social and Corporate Controversies. International Journal of Bank Marketing.

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Abstract

Purpose: Gender diversity in corporate boards is broadly studied in existing corporate governance literature. However, the role of board gender diversity on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of the banks is still unaccounted for. Drawing on resource dependence and legitimacy theory, this study addresses this pressing research issue. Moreover, investigation of ESG controversies as moderator paves the existing corporate governance research to the new avenues. Design/methodology/approach: Data sourced from Refinitiv database on 37 US banks from the period of 2013 to 2017. This study employs static and dynamic panel regression models that include random effects, fixed effects and dynamic generalised method of moments (GMM) to test the hypotheses. Furthermore, system GMM is used to reduce the issue of endogeneity, measurement error, omitted variables bias and bank-specific heterogeneity. Findings: We identify a significant positive relationship between board gender diversity and the ESG performance of US banks. However, the result propounds non-significant moderating effect of ESG controversies on the board gender diversity – ESG performance nexus. Originality/value: Literature on board gender diversity and ESG separately and predominantly explains firm/bank’s financial performance. This study is one of the pioneering attempts to explain the role of board gender diversity on ESG performance. Although incremental, however, this study also contributes to the literature on ESG in the US context.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Marketing; 1503 Business and Management; 1505 Marketing
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBM-04-2020-0210
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	20 Oct 2020 09:27
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2021 20:46
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27475

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