GENDER DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM R&D WORKFORCE IN SWEDEN

Wajda Wikhamn and Björn Remneland Wikhamn
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Wajda Wikhamn: BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
Björn Remneland Wikhamn: School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2020, vol. 24, issue 07, 1-27

Abstract: Compared to gender diversity in top management teams (TMTs) and board of directions, gender diversity in research and development (R&D) organisations, and its relationship with firm’s innovation performance, has received little attention. The aim of this paper is to investigate this relationship. Using a longitudinal design with five samples from Sweden the paper explores how gender diversity in R&D units relates to innovation-related employee productivity (measured in monetary value). Both linear and non-linear relationships are tested. The results suggest gender diversity has a non-linear, U-shape, relationship with employee innovation-related productivity, supporting the value-in-diversity perspective.

Keywords: Innovation; performance; employee productivity; gender diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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