The Mediating Effect of Capital Diversity on Gender Diversity and Firm Performance Relationship

In recent years, gender diversity has superseded director ‘independence’ as the front-of-mind consideration in the composition of company boards. However, research on the organisational-level influence of board gender diversity has focussed chiefly on the direct relationship between gender diversity and firm performance, with inadequate empirical attention paid to the possible intervening or underlying influence of other less readily observable...