How top management team diversity affects innovativeness and performance via the strategic choice to focus on innovation fields |
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Authors: | Katrin Talke Sören Salomo |
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Institution: | a University of Hamburg, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Welckerstraße 8, 20354 Hamburg, Germany b Technical University of Denmark, DTU Executive School of Business, Building 421, 2800 Copenhagen, Denmark c University of Zurich, IOU Institute for Organization and Administrative Science, Universitätsstrasse 84, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | Theory of upper echelon TMT diversity Innovation strategy Corporate governance New product portfolio innovativeness |
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