Does Cultural Diversity of Migrant Employees Affect Innovation? 1
Does Cultural Diversity of Migrant Employees Affect Innovation? 1
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DOI：
10.1111/imre.12138
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发表时间：
2014-09
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Ceren Ozgen;Cornelius Peters;Annekatrin Niebuhr;P. Nijkamp;J. Poot
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作者：
Ceren Ozgen;Cornelius Peters;Annekatrin Niebuhr;P. Nijkamp;J. Poot
不断增加的国际劳工移徙对所有移徙接受国公司的劳动力构成产生重要影响。这些变化对公司业绩的影响近年来引起了越来越多的关注。在本文中，我们明确地关注移民员工的文化多样性对企业创新的影响。我们简要地综合了来自欧洲、北美和新西兰的一系列背景的经验证据。然后，我们利用两个独特和协调的关联雇主-雇员数据集，为德国和荷兰提供比较微观计量经济学证据。我们的面板数据集包含1999年至2006年期间新产品和服务的产生、创新成功的决定因素以及企业机构就业构成的详细信息。我们发现，两国的创新主要取决于企业规模和行业。此外，企业遇到的障碍和面临的组织变革也会推动创新。关于就业的构成，高技能工作人员的存在是最重要的。员工文化多样性与产品创新存在正偏相关关系。这种效应的大小和统计显著性取决于计量经济模型规格和所考虑的国家。我们从文献综合和新的比较证据中得出结论，员工的文化多样性可以对创新做出积极的贡献，但这种贡献是适度的，并且取决于环境。
Increasing international labor migration has important effects on the workforce composition of firms in all migrant-receiving countries. The consequences of these changes for firm performance have attracted growing attention in recent years. In this paper, we focus explicitly on the impact of cultural diversity among migrant employees on the innovativeness of firms. We briefly synthesize empirical evidence from a range of contexts across Europe, North America, and New Zealand. We then utilize two unique and harmonized linked employer–employee datasets to provide comparative microeconometric evidence for Germany and the Netherlands. Our panel datasets contain detailed information on the generation of new products and services, determinants of innovation success, and the composition of employment in establishments of firms over the period 1999 to 2006. We find that innovation in both countries is predominantly determined by establishment size and industry. Moreover, obstacles encountered and organizational changes faced by firms drive innovation too. With respect to the composition of employment, the presence of high-skilled staff is most important. Cultural diversity of employees has a positive partial correlation with product innovation. The size and statistical significance of this effect depends on the econometric model specification and the country considered. We conclude from the literature synthesis and the new comparative evidence that cultural diversity of employees can make a positive, but modest and context dependent, contribution to innovation.