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Applied Economics Letters Volume 31, 2024 - Issue 14
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Research Article

Females’ social responsibility: the impact of female executives on ESG performance

Xianghui Menga School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1292-1297 | Published online: 20 Feb 2023
 
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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the impact mechanism of the proportion of female executives on ESG investment. The results show that when female executives play a greater role in management, ESG performance improves. This effect is an inverted U-shape, and the critical point is approximately 33%. Female executives have significantly promoted the digitization of enterprises, which is an important mechanism for explaining the improvement of ESG performance.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The work was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2022M720335]

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