The impact of R&D workforce diversity on firm’s performance in internal and external R&D
| Autor: | Sung Joo Bae, Sangyun Han |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Business administration 05 social sciences Multilevel model Workforce diversity Outsourcing Negatively associated Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Workforce 050211 marketing business Practical implications 050203 business & management Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Innovation Management. 23:454-473 |
| ISSN: | 1460-1060 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/ejim-09-2018-0204 |
| Popis: | PurposeHow should managers organize their R&D workforce in order to maximize the benefit of internal R&D and R&D outsourcing strategy? The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of R&D workforce diversity on firms’ performance when the firms use internal and external knowledge acquired from R&D outsourcing. Diversity of R&D employees as R&D workforce can enable firms to utilize the knowledge of internal R&D and internalize the external knowledge.Design/methodology/approachPanel data analysis with fixed effects is used. The authors conduct hierarchical multiple regression analyses to test the moderating effect of R&D workforce diversity with 10,401 data from Korean manufacturing firms.FindingsThis study finds out that age and education diversity of R&D workforce have positive moderating effects on the relationship between the R&D outsourcing and firm performance. In contrast, internal R&D is negatively associated with firm performance when the age diversity of R&D workforce increases. The results point to the significant role of R&D workforce diversity in R&D unit since firms often use both internal R&D and external R&D.Practical implicationsFor practical implications to be more effective, CEOs and managers of firms should employ differentiated approaches to manage the diversity of R&D workforce based on whether they primarily focus on their internal R&D or utilize external R&D.Originality/valueThis research extends recent efforts to better understand the effect of organizational diversity on the firms’ performance when firms use internal R&D and R&D outsourcing strategy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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