Gender diversity within top-management and corporate social responsibility in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Himmer, Hélène Léandre Jeanne
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22174
• topic: Corporate social responsibility; Gender diversity; Top-management; Portugal; Responsabilidade social corporativa; Diversidade de género; Alta gestão

The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between gender diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at top-management level in the context of large companies in Portugal. The research investigation used a quantitative analysis of the ratio of women in leadership instances such as board of directors, and related these to measures of companies’ performance on CSR activities, CSR reporting and Climate Change. Data from over 200 companies have been gathered and processed through comparison analysis in order to analyse to what extent gender diversity in topmanagement impacts CSR reporting in Portugal. The findings demonstrated a weak - almost negligible - correlation between female representation in top-management and CSR performance, and no relationship between the ratio of women in topmanagement and Climate Change progress. Additionally, the comparative analysis revealed a significant interaction between proportion of women in senior-management and CSR reporting process and the research show an undeniable lack of female leaders at the upper levels of large companies in Portugal reaching at the highest 25% of female within top-management instances.