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Título:
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Gender diversity and innovation in manufacturing and service firms
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Autor/a:
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Teruel, Mercedes; Parra, Maria Dolores; Segarra Blasco, Agustí, 1958-
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Otros autores:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia; Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública |
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Abstract:
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Traditionally, researchers have considered the
innovation process as being gender neutral.
However, recently some studies have begun to take gender diversity into account as a
determinant of firms’ innovation. This paper aims to analyse how the effect of gender
diversity on innovation output at firm level is sensitive to team size. Using the Spanish
PITEC (Panel de Innovación Tecnológica)
from 2007 to 2012 for innovative
manufacturing and service firms, we estimate
a multivariate probit model to analyse how
gender diversity both in R&D teams and in the total workforce affect product, process,
marketing and organizational innovations. Our results show that gender-diverse teams
increase the probability of innovating, and this capacity is positively related team size.
Gender diversity, in both the R&D department and the total workforce, has a larger
positive impact on the probability of carrying out product and organizational innovations
in larger teams than it does in smaller teams. This effect is less clear-cut in the case of
marketing and process innovation, where the impact is only significant for micro and
small firms. Finally, size effects are of greater importance when we distinguish between
the manufacturing and service sectors.
JEL Code:
O30, O31, J16 |
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Fecha de creación:
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2015 |
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Materias (CDU):
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33 - Economia |
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Materia(s):
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Innovacions tecnològiques
Treball en equip
Personal Administració
Rol sexual en el medi laboral |
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Derechos:
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L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
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Páginas:
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22 p. |
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Tipo de documento:
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Documento de trabajo |
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Editor:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia
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Collection:
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Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2015-15
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