Positive effects of ageing and age diversity in innovative companies - large-scale empirical evidence on company productivity
Positive effects of ageing and age diversity in innovative companies - large-scale empirical evidence on company productivity
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DOI：
10.1111/1748-8583.12011
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发表时间：
2013-07-01
影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Veen, Stephan
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作者：
Backes-Gellner, Uschi;Veen, Stephan
本文研究了公司员工的年龄多样性如何影响公司生产力。它引入了一个理论框架，有助于整合老龄化和多样性研究的广泛学科范围的结果，以得出关于年龄多样性对公司生产率影响的可实证检验的假设。它认为，首先，多样性的成本和收益之间的平衡决定了年龄多样性对公司生产率的影响，其次，所执行的任务类型起着调节作用。为了检验这些假设，它使用了一个大规模的雇主-雇员面板数据集。结果表明，当且仅当公司从事创造性任务而非常规任务时，年龄多样性的增加对公司生产力有积极影响。
This article investigates how age diversity within a company's workforce affects company productivity. It introduces a theoretical framework that helps integrate results from a broad disciplinary spectrum of ageing and diversity research to derive empirically testable hypotheses on the effects of age diversity on company productivity. It argues that first the balance between costs and benefits of diversity determines the effect of age diversity on company productivity, and that second the type of task performed acts as a moderator. To test these hypotheses, it uses a large-scale employer-employee panel data set. Results show that increasing age diversity has a positive effect on company productivity if and only if a company engages in creative rather than routine tasks.