... of each company. Using agency theory, upper echelon theory and sustainability theory, 645 firm-year data from the period of 2015–2019 are analysed. The partial least squares structural equation modelling is used to test the hypotheses studied. Findings The results indicate that WoB is positively...

.... The agency theory (Jensen and Meckling, 1976) has been used extensively in the extant literature on gender and cost of debt to explain why firms add female directors on their board to reduce the creditor-shareholder conflict (Table 1). Female directors, because of their independence from the so-called “old...

... the independent board, gender diversity and firm performance across the globe (Farag and Mallin, 2017 ; Chen et al., 2018 ; Gulamhussen and Santa, 2015). The agency theory and resource dependency theory represent the common traditional theories of corporate governance that influence these studies...