Building Resilience: How Board Gender Diversity and Top Executive Gender Affect Company Leverage

Abstract

The study examines the association between board gender diversity, top executive gender and financial leverage as a source of financial flexibility to support building company resilience in anticipation of crises and downturns. The study is based on listed companies in the Nordics and Baltics.

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Darškuvienė, V., Miliūnė, R. & Ščerbina-Dalibagienė, S. (2025). Building Resilience: How Board Gender Diversity and Top Executive Gender Affect Company Leverage. Management of Organizations: Systematic Research, 94(1), 67-82. https://doi.org/10.2478/mosr-2025-0011

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