The impact of gender on financial performance: Evidence from a sample of Portuguese SMEs

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Autor(a) principal: Pacheco, Luís Miguel
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Lobo, Carla Azevedo, Maldonado, Isabel
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/3319
Resumo: The objective of the present paper is to study the effects of gender on financial performance and examine the variables that may influence the presence of women leading the firm or being its main shareholder. The relation between gender and profitability in the context of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is a less studied topic in the broader context of performance determinants. Contributing to fill this research gap, it is used an unbalanced panel data of 141 Portuguese firms for the period from 2010 to 2018, obtained with primary and secondary data sources. The relation between gender and financial performance is addressed with two methodologies, a Tobit regression and a Random Effects Model. Our results evidence fewer possibilities for women to be firm leaders in larger and older organizational structures, which do not seem pressured towards equality. Additionally, firm age moderates the positive relation between female leadership and profitability. Given the SMEs importance in the majority of countries, the results and implications of this paper can be generalized to other economies.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The impact of gender on financial performance: Evidence from a sample of Portuguese SMEs
title The impact of gender on financial performance: Evidence from a sample of Portuguese SMEs
spellingShingle The impact of gender on financial performance: Evidence from a sample of Portuguese SMEs
Pacheco, Luís Miguel
Financial performance
Gender
SMEs
Internationalization
Firm' s characteristics
title_short The impact of gender on financial performance: Evidence from a sample of Portuguese SMEs
title_full The impact of gender on financial performance: Evidence from a sample of Portuguese SMEs
title_fullStr The impact of gender on financial performance: Evidence from a sample of Portuguese SMEs
title_full_unstemmed The impact of gender on financial performance: Evidence from a sample of Portuguese SMEs
title_sort The impact of gender on financial performance: Evidence from a sample of Portuguese SMEs
author Pacheco, Luís Miguel
author_facet Pacheco, Luís Miguel
Lobo, Carla Azevedo
Maldonado, Isabel
author_role author
author2 Lobo, Carla Azevedo
Maldonado, Isabel
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pacheco, Luís Miguel
Lobo, Carla Azevedo
Maldonado, Isabel
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Financial performance
Gender
SMEs
Internationalization
Firm' s characteristics
topic Financial performance
Gender
SMEs
Internationalization
Firm' s characteristics
description The objective of the present paper is to study the effects of gender on financial performance and examine the variables that may influence the presence of women leading the firm or being its main shareholder. The relation between gender and profitability in the context of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is a less studied topic in the broader context of performance determinants. Contributing to fill this research gap, it is used an unbalanced panel data of 141 Portuguese firms for the period from 2010 to 2018, obtained with primary and secondary data sources. The relation between gender and financial performance is addressed with two methodologies, a Tobit regression and a Random Effects Model. Our results evidence fewer possibilities for women to be firm leaders in larger and older organizational structures, which do not seem pressured towards equality. Additionally, firm age moderates the positive relation between female leadership and profitability. Given the SMEs importance in the majority of countries, the results and implications of this paper can be generalized to other economies.
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