女性高管与企业技术创新：基于高层梯队理论与风险偏好理论视角

Research on the impact of female executives on enterprise technological innovation

摘要:

摘要：随着越来越多女性走进职场，女性在企业担任高管越来越常见，其业绩表现也逐渐得到社会的广泛认可与肯定。文章依托高层梯队理论与风险偏好理论，以2008-2021年中国A股上市公司为研究样本，讨论女性高管对企业技术创新的影响及作用机制。研究发现：女性高管能够显著促进地企业技术创新。进一步研究还发现，女性高管对企业技术创新的促进作用在非国有企业、产品市场竞争更加激烈和市场化程度更高的样本中更显著。据此得到在创新驱动高质量发展背景下上市企业实现技术突破的启示：企业要主动完善女性高管的选聘及晋升机制；结合女性高管特征与实际工作任务，赋予并扩大女性高管相应的职能权限；企业可以适当增加配置女性高管数量和比例，并构建年轻女性高管梯次培养链。

Abstract:

As more and more women enter the workplace, it is more and more common for women to serve as senior executives in enterprises, and their performance has gradually been widely recognized and affirmed by the society. Relying on the theory of high-level echelon and risk appetite, this paper takes China"s A-share listed companies from 2008 to 2021 as a research sample to discuss the impact and mechanism of female executives on technological innovation of enterprises. The study found that female executives can significantly promote technological innovation in local companies. Further research also found that the role of female executives in promoting technological innovation of enterprises was more significant in the sample of non-state-owned enterprises, more fierce competition and more marketization in product markets. Based on this, it is enlightened that listed companies have achieved technological breakthroughs in the context of innovation-driven high-quality development: enterprises should take the initiative to improve the selection and promotion mechanism for female executives; Combine the characteristics and actual tasks of female executives to give and expand the corresponding functional authority of female executives; Enterprises can appropriately increase the number and proportion of female executives, and build a training chain for young female executives.