Authors
Gerben S Van der Vegt, Evert Van de Vliert, Xu Huang
Publication date
2005/12/1
Journal
Academy of Management Journal
Volume
48
Issue
6
Pages
1171-1182
Publisher
Academy of Management
Description
In this study, we examined the relationship between the demographic diversity and innovative climates of 248 organizational locations of a multinational company in 24 countries. Supporting a status characteristics perspective, multilevel analyses revealed that diversity in the more task-oriented demographic attributes of organizational tenure and functional background was negatively related to these locations' innovative climates in high-power-distance countries but positively related to the locations' innovative climate in low-power-distance countries. These interactive effects were not found for the more relations-oriented demographic attributes of age and gender.
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GS Van der Vegt, E Van de Vliert, X Huang - Academy of Management Journal, 2005