Samenvatting

Although there has been an increased interest from academics on the topic of women in executive positions, a good proportion of the research focuses on justifying the need to have more women through financial (e.g. bottom line) and non-financial (e.g. corporate social responsibility reporting) reasonings. However, the ethical considerations of the question seem to have been side-lined and could bring a new perspective to the current vision centred around neoliberal arguments. Considering the plethora of ethics theories, the focus was narrowed down to the feminist stakeholder theory as it gives a female perspective on a business ethics theory designed solely by men in a business world made for men. Based on this, the research was set out to explore the following research question:
How can feminist stakeholder theory help women gain access to executive boards in the lodging industry?