Gender diversity, inclusive innovation and firm performance

Fuentes, Marı́a del Mar Fuentes; García, Cristina Quintana; Lara, Macarena Marchante; Chicón, Carlos G. Benavides

doi:10.1002/sd.2615

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“…Therefore, more organizations are placing the employment of a diverse workforce among their top strategies towards becoming more innovative organizations (Qabir & Kun, 2023). To achieve this goal, organizations are required to design workplaces where employees with diverse backgrounds can feel included (del Mar Fuentes-Fuentes et al, 2023). An inclusive management of the diverse workforce can induce a perception of belongingness and fairness, as well acceptance and appreciation for uniqueness (Jones et al, 2021), which leads to motivation and achievement (Chaudhry et al, 2021) and further results in innovation (Jones et al, 2021).…”

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A Bibliometric Analysis of the Relationship Between Workforce Diversity and Innovation

TĂRĂBAN,

BONCILICĂ,

TILIBAȘA

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the International Management Conference

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The relationship between workforce diversity and innovation has recently come to the attention of researchers, numerous studies focusing on the causal relationship between the two terms, but none of them having investigated the specialized literature pertaining to this relationship from a bibliometric perspective. The aim of this paper is to use a bibliometric analysis in order to highlight the way the link between these two concepts evolves within the scientific field. In this sense, 366 Web of Science indexed publications on this topic were selected and analyzed with the help of two popular software - Biblioshiny and VOSviewer. The results highlighted the evolution of academic production on the link between workforce diversity and innovation, their territorial dissemination based on the most productive countries, the collaboration among three of the most influential channels (affiliations, authors, and sources), and the conceptual structure of the scientific production based on keyword co-occurrence analysis, as well as a longitudinal thematic analysis. This study can contribute to the literature through a map of the relationship between workforce diversity and innovation. Its conclusions have led to the idea that employee diversity (in terms of education, ethnicity, race, gender, equity, age) can create all the necessary premises (human capital, knowledge, productivity, cultural diversity, motivation, leadership) for an organization to be innovative and to achieve performance, thus leading to a competitive advantage.

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Section: The Link Between Diversity and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Bibliometric Analysis of the Relationship Between Workforce Diversity and Innovation

TĂRĂBAN,

BONCILICĂ,

TILIBAȘA

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the International Management Conference

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Corporate sustainability commitment in the Middle East and North Africa region: Impact on innovation and firm performance

Sdiri,

Ammar

2024

Bus Strat Dev

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This study examines the effects of corporate sustainability factors (CSFs)—specifically gender diversity, energy practices, and environmental practices—on innovation and their subsequent impact on firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. By integrating Absorptive Capacity Theory, we explore how these CSFs drive innovation, contributing to broader sustainable development goals. We analyze the impact of innovation on firm performance using the resource‐based view (RBV). Utilizing secondary data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES), we employ a two‐stage instrumental variable regression (IV‐2SLS) to address endogeneity and establish causal relationships. Our findings reveal that stakeholder engagement through gender diversity, energy practices, and environmental practices significantly enhances innovation, which, in turn, drives firm performance. Diverse leadership fosters creativity and innovation, while energy‐efficient and environmentally sustainable practices reduce costs, improve brand reputation, and align with sustainable development goals. These insights underscore essential policy implications for promoting environmental policy, clean production, and sustainable innovation ecosystems. Encouraging MENA firms to engage stakeholders and adopt sustainable practices can drive economic prosperity and contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Organizational inclusion and sustainable development: An empirical evidence from the context of Eastern culture

Zeng,

Katsumata,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Sustainable Development

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This study offers new insights into organizational inclusion and corporate sustainable development in the Japanese context. Specifically, we aim to explore organizational inclusion in the antecedents of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) inclusion and its effects on corporate outcomes, such as corporate market performance (CMP) and corporate environmental performance (CEP). Drawing upon legitimacy theory, we propose a conceptual model to uncover how operational diversity encourages organizational inclusion, such as supportive policies and practices. Moreover, grounded in stakeholder theory, we explore how organizational inclusion affects corporate outcomes, including CMP and CEP. Using a large sample of 1456 Japan‐listed firms with detailed organizational inclusive practices and corporate outcomes. Results indicate that operational diversity has positive effects on organizational inclusion. Moreover, the results indicate that organizational inclusion strengthens CMP and CEP. The empirical results are consistent after performing robustness checks based on subsampling. Our study contributes to the global discussion on business ethics, corporate market responses, and sustainable development.

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Gender diversity, inclusive innovation and firm performance

Cited by 10 publications

References 83 publications

A Bibliometric Analysis of the Relationship Between Workforce Diversity and Innovation

A Bibliometric Analysis of the Relationship Between Workforce Diversity and Innovation

Corporate sustainability commitment in the Middle East and North Africa region: Impact on innovation and firm performance

Organizational inclusion and sustainable development: An empirical evidence from the context of Eastern culture

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