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Female Board Representation and Coupled Open Innovation: Evidence from Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises

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Attah-Boakye, R.
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Yu, H.
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Johansson, J.
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Njoya, E.
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2023-06
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Coupled open innovation, OI, Female, Boar representation, EMNEs, Emerging Markets Multinational Enterprises, Institutional context
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© 2023 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Little research has been done on female board representation in emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs). Our paper considers the role of female board representation and its impact on open innovation (OI) in the unique context of emerging markets. We draw on upper echelons and institutional theories to understand how female board representation and cross-country institutional contexts influence coupled OI. Combining a 10-year (2009-2019) dataset with a rich in-depth content analysis of 183 (EMNEs) engaged in OI, our results reveal a significant positive association between female board representation and a firm’s commitment to coupled OI initiatives. We also find that country-level institutional factors affect and positively moderate the relationship between female board representation and coupled OI. In emerging market environments where managerial perception and cultural beliefs sometimes hinder the promotion of females into top positions, our work has implications for EMNEs regarding how they harness diversity. We contribute to the OI literature by showing that female board representation enhances corporate OI investment within EMNEs.
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Adams K, Attah-Boakye R, Yu H et al (2023) Female Board Representation and Coupled Open Innovation: Evidence from Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises. Technovation. 124: 102749.
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