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Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective
The tourism sector is a driver of economic development characterised by its environmental impact. It is a prevalent part of the 2030 Agenda, given its potential to help meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the same time, board gender diversity is considered essential for companies to im...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8394395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444583 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168834 |
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author | Fernández-Torres, Yakira Gutiérrez-Fernández, Milagros Gallego-Sosa, Clara |
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description | The tourism sector is a driver of economic development characterised by its environmental impact. It is a prevalent part of the 2030 Agenda, given its potential to help meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the same time, board gender diversity is considered essential for companies to implement environmentally sustainable initiatives. However, analysis of the relationship between the role of women on boards and environmental performance has been neglected in the tourism literature. This paper adopts a novel approach to the study of this sector by analysing the relationship between gender diversity on the board of directors and companies’ environmental practices. A fixed effects model is estimated using an international sample of 120 listed tourism companies for the period 2002 to 2019. The results show that boards that are more gender diverse and have a greater female presence are associated with poorer environmental performance and a weaker implementation of policies and practices to reduce resource use and emissions. However, board gender diversity aids performance in environmental innovation. |
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spelling | pubmed-83943952021-08-28 Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective Fernández-Torres, Yakira Gutiérrez-Fernández, Milagros Gallego-Sosa, Clara Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The tourism sector is a driver of economic development characterised by its environmental impact. It is a prevalent part of the 2030 Agenda, given its potential to help meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the same time, board gender diversity is considered essential for companies to implement environmentally sustainable initiatives. However, analysis of the relationship between the role of women on boards and environmental performance has been neglected in the tourism literature. This paper adopts a novel approach to the study of this sector by analysing the relationship between gender diversity on the board of directors and companies’ environmental practices. A fixed effects model is estimated using an international sample of 120 listed tourism companies for the period 2002 to 2019. The results show that boards that are more gender diverse and have a greater female presence are associated with poorer environmental performance and a weaker implementation of policies and practices to reduce resource use and emissions. However, board gender diversity aids performance in environmental innovation. MDPI 2021-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8394395/ /pubmed/34444583 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168834 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fernández-Torres, Yakira Gutiérrez-Fernández, Milagros Gallego-Sosa, Clara Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective |
title | Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective |
title_full | Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective |
title_fullStr | Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective |
title_short | Environmental Performance of the Tourism Sector from a Gender Diversity Perspective |
title_sort | environmental performance of the tourism sector from a gender diversity perspective |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8394395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444583 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168834 |
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