Does a different view create something new? the effect of employee diversity on innovation

Research Policy

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 500-509

  Østergaard, Christian R ^a   Timmermans, Bram ^a   Kristinsson, Kari ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Diversity; Education; Ethnicity; Gender; Innovation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AND INTERACTION; DATA SETS; DIVERSITY; ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; GENDER; INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE; INTERACTIVE PROCESS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS;

EDUCATION; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

PERSONNEL;

EID: 79951951793     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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