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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | How top management team diversity affects innovativeness and performance via the strategic choice to focus on innovation fields |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Research Policy |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0048-7333 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Number | 7 |
| Page Range | 907 - 918 |
| Date | 2010 |
| Abstract Text | Past innovation research has largely neglected potential effects of corporate governance issues on strategic choices, and thereby on innovation management outcomes. The theory of upper echelon implies that strategic choices result from idiosyncrasies of top management teams (TMT). Building on this theory, we hypothesize that TMT diversity enhances firm performance by facilitating an innovation strategy that increases the firm's new product portfolio innovativeness. Our findings support the relevance of considering a corporate governance view for explaining innovation outcomes. Empirically, we can show that TMT diversity has a strong impact on the strategic choice of firms to focus on innovation fields. Such focus then drives new product portfolio innovativeness and firm performance. As corporate governance arrangements thus seem relevant in the context of innovation management, we can derive implications for both policy makers and innovation researchers. Keywords: Theory of upper echelon; TMT diversity; Innovation strategy; Corporate governance; New product portfolio innovativeness |
| Official URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00487333 |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1016/j.respol.2010.04.001 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:759 |
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