Raising the bar? Top management teams, gender diversity, and environmental sustainability

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1080/23322373.2020.1830688

Edward M. Mungai, S. Ndiritu, Tazeeb S. Rajwani

引用次数: 9

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study examines how female board directors and top managers may influence an organization’s decision to adopt ISO 14001. Upper Echelon Theory (UET) argues that an organization’s outcomes are based on the decisions made by its directors and managers, who however are influenced by their background characteristics. Therefore, it is crucial to assess how gender diverse boards and top management teams affect the likelihood of sustainability initiatives such as the ISO 14001 certificate being adopted. According to data gathered from Kenyan companies, having women on boards increases the probability of ISO 14001 adoption. On the contrary, there was weak correlation with having women in the top management team. Establishing gender diversity also supports adopting global sustainability initiatives, such as ISO 14001, as a strategy to enhance environmental performance of a firm. This study advances the CSR literature on establishing gender diversity in the workplace as a way to improve corporate performance.

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提高标准？高层管理团队、性别多样性和环境可持续性

摘要本研究探讨女性董事和高层管理人员如何影响组织采用ISO 14001的决策。上层梯队理论(UET)认为，一个组织的结果是基于其董事和经理所做的决策，然而，他们受到其背景特征的影响。因此，评估性别多样化的董事会和高层管理团队如何影响可持续性倡议(如ISO 14001证书)被采用的可能性是至关重要的。根据从肯尼亚公司收集的数据，董事会中有女性增加了采用ISO 14001的可能性。相反，这与高层管理团队中是否有女性存在较弱的相关性。建立性别多样性也有助于采用全球可持续发展倡议，如ISO 14001，作为提高公司环境绩效的战略。本研究推进了企业社会责任文献中建立职场性别多样性作为提高企业绩效的一种方式。

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Africa Journal of Management Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

15.40%

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期刊介绍： The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid reversal, and deal effectively with emerging challenges and opportunities, Africa needs better management scholarship, education and practice. The purpose of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) is to advance management theory, research, education, practice and service in Africa by promoting the production and dissemination of high quality and relevant manuscripts. AJOM is committed to publishing original, rigorous, scholarly empirical and theoretical research papers, which demonstrate clear understanding of the management literature and draw on Africa’s local indigenous knowledge, wisdom and current realities. As the first scholarly journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), AJOM gives voice to all those who are committed to advancing management scholarship, education and practice in or about Africa, for the benefit of all of Africa. AJOM welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. We are particularly interested in manuscripts which address Africa’s most important development needs, challenges and opportunities as well as the big management questions of the day. We are interested in research papers which address issues of ethical conduct in different African settings.