An Integrated Analysis of the Impact of Gender Diversity on Innovation and Productivity in Manufacturing Firms

Abstract

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Diversity, entrepreneurial innovation, and performance of healthcare sector in the COVID‐19 pandemic period

“…The positive impact of gender diversity is consistent and confirms the findings from previous studies (Gallego & Gutiérrez, 2018; Mir‐Babayev et al, 2017) in the medical and non‐medical sectors. Therefore, the presence of women in the Lebanese health sector improved the level of entrepreneurial innovation and ideas generation during the Covid‐19 pandemic period.…”

“…In the emerging knowledge‐based economy, commercial and social organizations rely more on their intangible assets such as knowledge, skills, and abilities to gain competitiveness (Teece et al, 1997). Organizations with a variety of experiences and backgrounds among their workforce may have more capacity to be efficient (Quintana‐Garca & Benavides‐Velasco, 2008) and innovative (Bolli et al, 2018; Gallego & Gutiérrez, 2018; Gharama et al, 2020; Mir‐Babayev et al, 2017) in different business fields. As a result, employee diversity is an important factor that could boost organization's development and innovation because both concepts improve the level of knowledge, ideas generation, and creativity (Woodman et al, 1993).…”

Workforce education diversity, work organization and innovation propensity

“…Second, in spite of the long research tradition on innovation, industry, and development in Latin America, there has been hardly any research on workforce diversity and firm innovation (Gallego and Gutiérrez, 2018;Ruiz-Mejías and Corrales-Mejías, 2015).…”

“…Second, in spite of the long research tradition on innovation, industry and development in Latin America, there has been hardly any research on workforce diversity and firm innovation (Gallego and Guti errez, 2018;Ruiz-Mej ıas and Corrales-Mej ıas, 2015). Expanding the evidence on firms' innovation patterns and the role of the workforce qualification in Latin America is particularly relevant seeing the current debate on the creative and destructive effects of innovation on employment (e.g.…”

The innovation gender gap in transition countries

“…In particular, for Danish manufacturing and service firms evidence shows that the most innovative firms have a more gender-balanced composition (Østergaard et al, 2011). Gender diversity in the organization and the difference in skills, knowledge and experience strongly support the team of Spanish firms operating in industrial and service sectors to be more innovative (Diaz-Garcìa et al, 2013) and the innovation activities are positively associated with the number of women employed in Colombian manufacturing firms (Gallego & Gutierrez, 2018). All these studies show that the presence of women in teams increases the knowledge differences and the firm innovation performance mainly when it is combined with male entrepreneurship (Dai et al, 2019), while a firm size is weakly relevant when the analysis is focused on the relationship between gender and innovation (Teruel et al, 2015).…”