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Female Executives and Digital Transformation in Enterprises
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Abstract
In the digital era of the economy, digital transformation has become an important path for high-quality development of Corporates. This article is based on the Guotai An database and uses Chinese companies from 2010 to 2021 as research samples to empirically examine the impact of the proportion of female executives on corporate digital transformation. The study found that: (1) The proportion of female executives can enhance a company's level of digitalization. (2) This effect is mainly achieved through increasing the company's research and development intensity, thereby improving its digitalization level. (3) The role of female executives in promoting digitalization is more pronounced in non-state-owned, large companies with dispersed equity ownership.
Keywords
Female executives, Digitalization, R&D intensity, Corporate governance
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Financial Technology and Business Analysis
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-319-7
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-320-3
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- 05 March 2024
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- Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
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- 2754-1169
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- 2754-1177
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- 10.54254/2754-1169/73/20230840
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- 05 March 2024
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