Originality/value Previous studies have produced mixed results regarding the effect of having a female CEO on firm performance, and the research to date has not explored the economic channel through w

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• CEO gender, firm performance and agency costs: evidence from India (2019) · doi

  Originality/value Previous studies have produced mixed results regarding the effect of having a female CEO on firm performance, and the research to date has not explored the economic channel through which this effect occurs.

  Keywords: effect originality value previous produced mixed regarding having female firm performance date explored economic channel
• Effect of female executives on Chinese cultural media enterprise efficiency (2021) · doi

  Originality/value Previous research has tended to focus on the causal relationships between female senior executives and business performances; however, there have been few studies on the relationships between female executives and company performance from an efficiency perspective (optimal resource allocation).

  Keywords: relationships female executives originality value previous tended focus causal senior business performances there company performance
• Leadership performance evaluation of GCC women in middle and lower management in technology-based organizations: investigating economic influences (2025) · doi

  Originality/value This study provides a novel perspective by quantitatively examining GCC women’s leadership performance in TBOs, a context underexplored in the literature, while linking women’s leadership performance to economic factors, thereby filling a critical research gap.

  Keywords: women leadership performance originality value provides novel perspective quantitatively examining tbos context underexplored literature linking
• Can female executives improve employment relations outcomes? Empirical evidence from China with gender implications (2023) · doi

  Purpose Despite the growing research interest in gender diversity, the presence of female executives and organizational outcomes, the relationship between female executives and employment relations outcomes remains under-researched.

  Keywords: female executives outcomes purpose despite growing interest gender diversity presence organizational relationship employment relations remains