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Men and Women of the Corporation
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Culture and Organization Theory
TL;DR: Culture has become a legitimate concern and part of the basic conceptual toolkit in much of contemporary organization theory as mentioned in this paper, and an analytic nexus between culture, power, and agency is emerging in contemporary organizational theory that ultimately may yield a theory of society.
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Corporate governance, female directors and quality of financial information
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether gender diversity on audit committees (hereinafter, ACs) influences financial reporting quality by using panel data of Spanish listed firms and found evidence to support the hypotheses that the percentage of females on ACs reduces the probability of qualifications due to errors, non-compliance or the omission of information.
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Female medical leadership: cross sectional study
TL;DR: Among female hospital physicians there was a positive relation between the proportion of women in their specialty and the probability of leadership, and women do not reach senior positions as easily as men.
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Gender and Board Activeness: The Role of a Critical Mass
TL;DR: This paper analyzed detailed minutes of board meetings of business companies in which the Israeli government holds a substantial equity interest and found that boards with at least three directors of each gender are at least 79% more active at board meetings than those without such representation.
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Skirting the Issues Experimental Evidence of Gender Bias in IPO Prospectus Evaluations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors construct a simulated IPO, manipulating the gender demographics of the top management team, finding that female CEOs may be disproportionately disadvantaged in their ability to attract growth capital, when all other factors are controlled.
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Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders.
Alice H. Eagly,Steven J. Karau +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence from varied research paradigms substantiates that consequences of perceived incongruity between the female gender role and leadership roles are more difficult for women to become leaders and to achieve success in leadership roles.
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Economics and Identity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes and incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior, and construct a simple game-theoretic model showing how identity can affect individual interactions.
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Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
TL;DR: In this article, an emotion-management perspective is proposed as a lens through which to inspect the self, interaction, and structure of emotion, arguing that emotion can be and ofter is subject to acts of management.
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What is agency
Mustafa Emirbayer,Ann Mische +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualize agency as a temporally embedded process of social engagement, informed by the past (in its "iterational" or habitual aspect) but also oriented toward the future (as a projective capacity to imagine alternative possibilities) and toward the present, as a practical-evaluative capacity to contextualize past habits and future projects within the contingencies of the moment.
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Social stigma and self-esteem: The self-protective properties of stigma.
Jennifer Crocker,Brenda Major +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it is proposed that members of stigmatized groups may attribute negative feedback to prejudice against their group, compare their outcomes with those of the ingroup, rather than with the relatively advantaged outgroup, and selectively devalue those dimensions on which their group fares poorly and value those dimensions that their group excels.