Sonnenfeld, 2004).
Hypothesis 4. Assumed that firms have female representation on its board of directors will eventually links to other firms in the market having also females on their boards. And that will improve the communication and information between them.
Methods
After putting these assumptions together to answer the study questions, the authors used exploratory macro deductive quantitative methods. Using resource dependant theory a sample of 1000 firms of the largest sales between 1990 and 2003 in USA were taken and some measures were put to classify these data.
A- Female board representation: they checked women presence on boards of these companies through KLD Database, Press Report and gender specific names.
B- Organization Size: Using the logarithm of sales and number of employees they could measure organization