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Claude Francoeur
Researcher at HEC Montréal
Publications - 46
Citations - 3367
Claude Francoeur is an academic researcher from HEC Montréal. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Gender diversity. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 44 publications receiving 2765 citations.
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Gender Diversity in Corporate Governance and Top Management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether and how the participation of women in the firm's board of directors and senior management enhances financial performance and found that firms operating in complex environments do generate positive and significant abnormal returns when they have a high proportion of women officers.
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Gender Diversity in Corporate Governance and Top Management
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether and how the participation of women in a firm's board of directors and senior management enhances financial perfor- mance and found that firms operating in complex environments do generate positive and significant abnormal returns when they have a high pro- portion of women officers.
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Causality Between Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance: Evidence from Canadian Firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the causal relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and financial performance (FP) has been investigated on a sample of 179 publicly held Canadian firms and use the measures of CSP provided by Canadian Social Investment Database for the years 2004 and 2005.
Performance and Financial Performance: Evidence from Canadian Firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the causal relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and financial performance (FP) was investigated on a sample of 179 publicly held Canadian firms and use the measures of CSP provided by Canadian Social Investment Database for the years 2004 and 2005.
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What Makes Better Boards? A Closer Look at Diversity and Ownership
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of diversity on the success of strategic merger and acquisition (M&A) decisions and found that diversity has a clear and non-linear effect on M&A performance.