Análisis de la suposición de no linealidad en la relación entre la diversidad de género en el consejo de administración y la rentabilidad de la firma
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https://doi.org/10.51302/rcyt.2018.4145Palabras clave:
consejo de administración, diversidad de género, rentabilidad, relación curvilíneaResumen
Desde el prisma de su consideración como uno de los aspectos que afectan al buen gobierno de la firma, la diversidad de género en el consejo de administración se ha convertido en un tema de notable interés para distintas áreas de la investigación empresarial, particularmente en lo referido a las a menudo sugeridas vinculaciones que pueda mantener con el éxito financiero de la entidad. A este respecto, las evidencias empíricas previas ofrecen resultados ambiguos, encontrándose efectos sobre el rendimiento de signo tanto positivo como negativo, adicionalmente a estudios que no aprecian impacto significativo alguno. A fin de extender las aportaciones que nos preceden, y con un soporte explicativo fundamentado en varios de los planteamientos habituales en el campo del gobierno corporativo, en el presente trabajo se contrasta la hipótesis de que la relación entre el nivel de diversidad de género del consejo y la rentabilidad de la firma siga una forma funcional no lineal. El análisis empírico realizado se basa en una batería de ratios contables calculados para el periodo 2009-2012, sobre la base de una muestra de más de 7.200 sociedades anónimas españolas. Los resultados obtenidos permiten sustentar el adecuado encaje de la aproximación curvilínea, que ha de interpretarse en el sentido de asociar expectativas más favorables a los consejos moderadamente heterogéneos.
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