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Abstract
Employing resource-based perspectives of the firm as a theoretical foundation, this article
empirically examines the relationship between women in two different types of leadership roles
and environmentally sustainable firms. I study an unbalanced panel data set of 2,006 wine firms
in Australia for the period 2007–2014. The results suggests that when accounting for their
individual, independent effects, women in technical leadership roles are positively associated
with environmental sustainability, while women in professional leadership roles are not.
However, the potential complementarities of women in both roles are explored, their interactive,
co-joint (complementary) effect explains significantly more variance in the environmental
sustainability variable than their individual effects. The results are discussed along with
limitations and directions for future research.