Abstract

SALAS-ARBELAEZ, Laura; GARCIA-SOLARTE, Mónica  and  AZUERO-RODRIGUEZ, Andrés Ramiro. Manager’s gender and innovation: Empirical case in Pymes of Cali. Revista Investig. Desarro. Innov. [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.2, pp.223-235. ISSN 2027-8306.  https://doi.org/10.19053/20278306.v8.n2.2018.7962.

In recent years, innovation has become a vital and strategic activity for the performance of organizations. Face to this, the Small and Medium Enterprises (Pymes) have been forced to immerse themselves in innovative initiatives that allow them to encourage their business growth to remain in time. Few studies link organizations forms of innovation with manager’s gender, and those studies that exist, show that men do more innovation activities in companies than women. Following the precedent, this research aims to identify the effect of manager’s gender in the innovations in Pymes of the manufacturing and high technology sector of Cali. Results show that there is no difference between men and women when doing innovation in organizations.

Keywords : manager’s gender; innovation; Pymes; Cali.

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