RT journal article
T1 Women and inter-organizational boundary spanning: A way into upper management?
A1 Araujo Pinzón, Pedro
A1 Álvarez Dardet, Concha
A1 Ramón Jerónimo, Juan Manuel
A1 Flórez López, Raquel
A2 Economía Financiera y Contabilidad
K1 Gender
K1 Inter-organizational relationships
K1 Boundary management
K1 Externalized export channels
K1 Vertical and horizontal segregation
AB This study analyses the presence of gender segregation in Spanish exporting firms. Both women's access to managerial positions (vertical segregation) and women's achievement of managerial roles that are socially associated with communal attributes (horizontal segregation) are tested. We argue that boundary-spanning (henceforth, boundary management) in export interfirm relationships benefits from relational and communal skills and therefore could not only offer an opportunity for women to gain access to management positions but also put them at risk of falling into a rut before achieving other control-based managerial roles. This empirical study examines the characteristics (personal and firm-level) of Spanish female managers in charge of export management through independent channels. A multivariate analysis has been performed to compare female managers with male managers both in boundary management and in the position of finance director, a control position closer to a socially stereotyped masculine role. The results show that women have slightly higher access to boundary management jobs than finance management jobs, as well as a significantly lower promotion time than male colleagues, but they also corroborate that there is a smaller percentage of women than men in any management positions, with female managers working in younger firms with fewer resources for export activity.
PB European Academy of Management and Business Economics
SN 2444-8834
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33817
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33817
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 20-may-2026