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Female CEOs Facing Challenges during Covid-19 Pandemic: Differences in Family and Non-Family Firms
Magnanelli, Barbara Sveva
Ciaburri, Mirella Nasta, Luigi Tiscini, Riccardo
Ciaburri, Mirella
Tiscini, Riccardo
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been a disruptive unexpected event that hit firms worldwide. It is necessary starting to investigate on the features of the firms which better allowed companies to face and react to this critical situation. The present study aims at investigating as first whether firm performance is affected by the presence of a female CEO during unexpected critical events, and then by exploring the effects of being a family firm during a crisis period. Moreover, the study aims at exploring also the impact of having a female CEO in case the firm is a family one. In fact, given the rising importance of gender in top managerial levels, more research has been focusing on female leadership. However,stilllittle research exists on female leadership in family firms.An empirical analysis was conducted on a sample of Italian listed firms overathree-yearperiod (2018–2020),which means data were collected and analyzed through the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that female leadership during the pandemic has a positive effect on firm performance.Likewise, family firmsare able to outperform non-family firms during the occurrence of an unexpected critical event.
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2022
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COVID-19, Family firms, Female leadership, Resilience
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Magnanelli, Barbara Sveva, Mirella Ciaburri, Luigi Nasta, and Riccardo Tiscini. “Female CEOs Facing Challenges during Covid-19 Pandemic: Differences in Family and Non-Family Firms.” Proceedings of The Global Conference on Women’s Studies 1 (1): 39–59. 2022.