Does gender diversity matter? Female directors and firm carbon emissions in Japan
Does gender diversity matter? Female directors and firm carbon emissions in Japan
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pacfin.2022.101931
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发表时间：
2023-01-03
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Wang, Jian
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作者：
Fan, Pengda;Qian, Xuepeng;Wang, Jian
关于董事会多元化对公司治理的影响，以促进公司可持续发展的研究正在兴起。然而，关于性别多样性对公司环境绩效的影响的研究仅限于传统的公司社会责任报告、披露和评级。相反，这项研究探讨了这些影响，重点是总体碳排放。它采用了一种新的数据集，该数据集是根据日本企业层面的直接总体碳排放量编制的。因此，拥有女性外部董事的公司更有可能拥有较低的碳排放量。相比之下，如果女性被任命为内部董事，减排效果就会减弱。研究结果是强大的几个识别策略，以解决潜在的内分泌问题。政策含义鼓励公司从治理的角度加强可持续性绩效。
Research on the impact of corporate board diversity on corporate governance for corporate sustainability development is on the rise. However, studies on the effects of gender diversity on corporate environmental performance are limited to traditional corporate social responsibility reports, disclosures, and ratings. This study, instead, explores such effects, focusing on overall carbon emissions. It employs a novel dataset compiled based on direct overall carbon emissions at the firm level in Japan. Accordingly, firms with female outside directors are more likely to have lower carbon emissions. By contrast, abatement effects are muted if women are appointed as inside directors. The findings are robust to several identification strategies employed to address potential endogeneity issues. The policy implications encourage corporations to strengthen sus-tainability performance from the governance perspective.