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Dissertation
THE EFFECTS OF GENDER, NATIONAL CULTURE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS ON FIRMS’ ETHICAL, GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATION OUTCOMES
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2019
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/111935
Abstract
The overarching theme of this dissertation is to investigate the effects of gender, national culture, and social institutions on the ethics, growth performance, and innovation outcomes of firms, using multilevel modeling. Given the importance of globalization, it is critical to understand whether the relationships hold in various cultural and social institutional contexts.
The first essay examines the gendered impact of corporate corruption, namely firm bribery. Building on prior research, the main argument is that firm bribery is the outcome of barriers to achievement, and bribery may represent an avenue for women-owned firms to tackle such obstacles. The results suggest that women ownership in firm alone has no effect on firm-bribing behavior. However, this firm-level relationship is negatively moderated by three social institutions consistent with theory.
The second essay explores the effects of female representation in firm ownership and the firm growth performance and the contextual moderators of this relationship. Using resource dependency theory with critical mass notion, the results refuted the general female underperformance concept and supported the positive moderating role of a gender-equal environment; however, contrary to the original hypothesis, masculinity was not negative as predicted.
The third essay examines both firm and country level influences on firm innovation Based on institutional anomie theory, I theorized that innovation was a positive deviance to anomic conditions in societies. I extended the theory’s application by arguing that firm level pressures can also lead to innovation in addition to unique mixtures of cultural and institutional drivers and their interactions. The result showed support for the presence of anomic conditions at both firm and societal levels predicting innovation consistent with the theory.
The contributions of this essay includes the following: (a) offering new insights on firm bribery by filling a critical blind spot in institutional anomie theory by integrating a gender-sensitized approach, (b) offering insights on how critical mass of females firm ownership affect growth performance and how it is moderated by contextual factor (i.e. gender equality), and (c) extending the application of institutional anomie theory to the firm level in addition to country level (Social institutions and GLOBE) in predicting firm innovation.
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- Title
- THE EFFECTS OF GENDER, NATIONAL CULTURE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS ON FIRMS’ ETHICAL, GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATION OUTCOMES
- Creators
- Sahrok Kim
- Contributors
- John B Cullen (Advisor)Benjamin J Warnick (Committee Member)Kristine M Kuhn (Committee Member)Praveen Parboteeah (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Carson College of Business
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 152
- Identifiers
- 99900581618101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation