Location-level links between diversity and innovative climate depend on national power distance

Gerben S. Van Der Vegt; Evert D.E. Van Vliert; Xu Huang

doi:10.5465/amj.2005.19573116

Location-level links between diversity and innovative climate depend on national power distance

Gerben S. Van Der Vegt^*
, Evert D.E. Van Vliert
, Xu Huang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Management, Marketing and Information Systems

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1171-1182
Number of pages	12
Journal	Academy of Management Journal
Volume	48
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2005.19573116
Publication status	Published - Dec 2005

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