How top management team diversity affects innovativeness and performance via the strategic choice to focus on innovation fields

Research Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 907-918

  Talke, Katrin ^a   Salomo, Sören ^b   Rost, Katja ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Innovation strategy; New product portfolio innovativeness; Theory of upper echelon; TMT diversity

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; FIRM PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION MANAGEMENT; INNOVATION RESEARCH; INNOVATION STRATEGY; INNOVATIVENESS; NEW PRODUCT; POLICY MAKERS; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; STRATEGIC CHOICE; TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77953722714     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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