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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.8.539

Age Diversity and Organizational Innovation: The Effects of Innovation Types and the Moderating Role of Organizational Culture  

Park, Jisung (College of Business and Economics, Chungnam National University)
Shin, Soo Young (Department of Business Administration, Yeungnam University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.8, 2019 , pp. 539-547 More about this Journal
Abstract
Even though current firms achieve organizational innovation with diverse workforce, previous studies on the relationship between workforce diversity and firm innovation revealed mixed results. To explain these inconsistent findings, this study examines the contradictory aspects of diversity, and divides innovative performance as exploitative and exploratory innovation. In particular, the main focus of this study is age diversity and firm innovation, since most Korean firms suffer from inter-generational conflicts. In addition, this study explores the moderating role of cohesive and innovative culture as the strong norms within the organization. The HCCP data was used to test these hypotheses. As predicted, age diversity negatively influences exploitative innovation, and positively affects exploratory innovation. However, the moderating role of cohesive culture was not statistically significant. Conversely, innovative culture strengthens the positive relationship between them.
Keywords
Age Diversity; Exploitation; Exploration; Organizational Culture; Organizational Innovation;
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