...Carolina Lopez-Nicolas; Luis Rubalcaba; Ada Scupola; Cristina Suarez Purpose This study aims to investigate the drivers and barriers that influence women’s capacity to innovate in public services. A theoretical framework and related hypotheses are proposed by drawing on new public management...

...Dat Nguyen; Tu Le; Linh Tran Purpose This study aims to investigate how innovation and gender diversity, both at the board and executive levels, affect Vietnamese banks’ stability efficiency. Bank stability efficiency is defined as the degree to which banks can effectively maintain financial...

...Adrian Testera Fuertes; Liliana Herrera Purpose This paper aims to analyse the influence of workforce diversity on the firm’s likelihood to develop organisational innovations. Operationalising human resources diversity is not straightforward, and its effect has been rather overlooked...

...Amir Khushk; Zhang Zengtian; Yang Hui Purpose This study aims to explore how female leadership contributes to corporate innovation through a systematic literature review. The authors provide a framework based on empirical studies to provide a broader perspective of corporate innovation based...

.../methodology/approach The authors analyze the major elements associated with the processes and strategies in WEKH through a case study approach. Findings The findings presented in this paper clearly show how creating an inclusive innovation ecosystem linking micro-, meso- and macro-level factors has...

...Christopher R. Reutzel; Jamie D. Collins; Carrie A. Belsito Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of business leader gender on the pursuit of innovation opportunities. Extant research suggests that leader gender represents an important characteristic that shapes firm...

... education organization need “soft” ways of power management, oriented more towards informal social networks than formal issues. This allows one to discuss the innovative role that women potentially and actually play in higher education organizations. Julián López Yáñez can be contacted at: lopezya@us.es...

... Organizational learning Innovation Small‐to medium‐sized enterprises Innovation is positively related to business performance in small firms, whether demonstrated by the introduction of new products, services and processes or by the re‐innovation of existing products and processes (Deakins, 1996; Cosh...