Talke, Katrin; Salomo, Sören; Rost, Katja - In: Research Policy 39 (2010) 7, pp. 907-918
diversity has a strong impact on the strategic choice of firms to focus on innovation fields. Such focus then drives new product …, and thereby on innovation management outcomes. The theory of upper echelon implies that strategic choices result from … idiosyncrasies of top management teams (TMT). Building on this theory, we hypothesize that TMT diversity enhances firm performance by …