Gender diversity in the boardroom and shareholder wealth maximisation: Evidence from the United Kingdom

Gender Diversity in the Boardroom

This paper documents several significant correlations between the variability of stock returns, the structure of director compensation and the gender diversity of corporate boards. In a crosssectional sample of boards of directors of 1024 publicly traded firms in fiscal year 1998, we find three robust results: (1) firms facing more variability in their stock returns have fewer women on their bo...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Gender Diversity in Boardroom and Firm Financial Performance: Evidence from Hong Kong BY Cheung

Stochastic Production Planning for Maximisation of Shareholder Wealth in the MTS Supply Chain Mode

The capacitated lot sizing policy is pivotaltostochastic production planning. This paper attempts to formulate a general lot sizing model for a stochastic MTS (make-to-stock) manufacturing environment under demand uncertainty. To better reflect real-world manufacturing, general distributions are used as a substitute for unrealistic theoretical assumptions on involved random variables. Instead o...

phylogeography and genetic diversity of the lesser mouse- eared bat (myotis blythii) in iran

in current study, 63 samples of bat populations collected from differ regions were used for evaluating the geographic variations. twenty cranial and dental characters for traditional morphometric and landmarks method on the ventral, dorsal skull and mandible for geometry morphometric studies were used. statistical analyses of traditional morphometric and geometry morphometric data indicated low...