Board Size and Gender Diversity on Boardrooms and Its Impact of Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from Indonesia

The role of company boards as well as it composition in the diversity issues (i.e gender) are very important to make strategic corporate decision. This paper investigates the determinant of corporate risk taking through the size of board and the existence of gender diversity on boardrooms. Focusing...

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Main Author: Kusuma Ratnawati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Brawijaya 2019-12-01
Series:APMBA (Asia Pacific Management and Business Application)
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Online Access:https://apmba.ub.ac.id/index.php/apmba/article/view/347
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description The role of company boards as well as it composition in the diversity issues (i.e gender) are very important to make strategic corporate decision. This paper investigates the determinant of corporate risk taking through the size of board and the existence of gender diversity on boardrooms. Focusing on the boards in the non-financial companies, there were 262 companies from period of 2013 to 2016 could be analyzed based on certain criteria. The result of multiple regression analysis showed that the corporate risk taking positively influenced by board size. In contrary, the gender diversity has small negatively effect on corporate risk taking. It suggested that the greater size of the board will increase the volatility of ROA, but the presence of female on boards tends to decrease the volatility of ROA. This paper contributes to the development of theory in the fields of corporate financial management in term of risk taking and lastly. this study also documented that the importance of determining the proportion between male and female boards, as a way to scheming appropriate board composition in company.
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spelling doaj.art-12975c9b8edd4df0a913e23cf0f3fafa2022-12-21T18:34:58ZengUniversity of BrawijayaAPMBA (Asia Pacific Management and Business Application)2252-89972019-12-018214516410.21776/ub.apmba.2019.008.02.6217Board Size and Gender Diversity on Boardrooms and Its Impact of Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from IndonesiaKusuma RatnawatiThe role of company boards as well as it composition in the diversity issues (i.e gender) are very important to make strategic corporate decision. This paper investigates the determinant of corporate risk taking through the size of board and the existence of gender diversity on boardrooms. Focusing on the boards in the non-financial companies, there were 262 companies from period of 2013 to 2016 could be analyzed based on certain criteria. The result of multiple regression analysis showed that the corporate risk taking positively influenced by board size. In contrary, the gender diversity has small negatively effect on corporate risk taking. It suggested that the greater size of the board will increase the volatility of ROA, but the presence of female on boards tends to decrease the volatility of ROA. This paper contributes to the development of theory in the fields of corporate financial management in term of risk taking and lastly. this study also documented that the importance of determining the proportion between male and female boards, as a way to scheming appropriate board composition in company.https://apmba.ub.ac.id/index.php/apmba/article/view/347board sizegender diversitycorporate risk taking
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Board Size and Gender Diversity on Boardrooms and Its Impact of Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from Indonesia
APMBA (Asia Pacific Management and Business Application)
board size
gender diversity
corporate risk taking
title Board Size and Gender Diversity on Boardrooms and Its Impact of Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from Indonesia
title_full Board Size and Gender Diversity on Boardrooms and Its Impact of Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from Indonesia
title_fullStr Board Size and Gender Diversity on Boardrooms and Its Impact of Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed Board Size and Gender Diversity on Boardrooms and Its Impact of Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from Indonesia
title_short Board Size and Gender Diversity on Boardrooms and Its Impact of Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from Indonesia
title_sort board size and gender diversity on boardrooms and its impact of corporate risk taking evidence from indonesia
topic board size
gender diversity
corporate risk taking
url https://apmba.ub.ac.id/index.php/apmba/article/view/347
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