Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of gender diversity (in executive boards and top management) on firm performance. To reconcile the inconsistent and non‐conclusive findings from previous studies, competing curvilinear relationships are theorized between gender...

Purpose – To develop a model that assess the feasibility to telework new product activities. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review of innovation and telework to find criteria relevant to use telework in new product development activities. Findings – The first stage of the model...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the relationship between labour flexibility and innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a review of theoretical perspectives to analyze this relationship. A postal survey of a sample of Spanish manufacturing and service firms...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the contribution of human resource (HR) commitment practices to firm performance through the adoption of workplace practices that require the organisational climate created by HR commitment practices. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the moderator effect of inter‐organizational cooperation in the relationship between workplace flexibility and innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach – Postal survey to a sample of manufacturing and service firms. Hierarchical...