A gender perspective of Slovenian high-growth firm's profitability Online publication date: Thu, 31-Dec-2015
by Karin Širec; Dijana Močnik
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB), Vol. 27, No. 2/3, 2016
Abstract: This paper empirically tests whether firm profitability is dependent on a firm owner's gender and explains the relationship between a firm's profitability and firm size, leverage ratio, and labour costs. We used a sample of 607 male and 132 female-owned Slovenian high-growth firms. The results demonstrated that firm's profitability and leverage ratio is negatively related for both male- and female-owned firms whereas labour costs are positively related to it for male-owned firms only. The impact of firm size proved to be a significant determinant of profitability for male-owned firms only. The negative coefficient for the leverage ratio indicates that the higher the extent to which debts was used as the source of financing, the lower the profits. The positive association between labour costs and profitability in male-owned firms implies that the higher the labour cost, the higher the profitability of maleowned high-growth firms.
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