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Female Creativity in Organizations: What is the Impact of Team Composition in Terms of Gender during Ideation Processes?
[La creatividad de las mujeres en las organizaciones: ¿Cuál es el impacto de la composición de género del equipo durante el proceso de las ideas?]

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  • Guy Parmentier

    (CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019])

  • Séverine Leloarne-Lemaire

    (EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management, IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc)

  • Mustapha Belkhouja

    (EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management)

Abstract

This paper questions the impact of team gender composition on idea generation and idea evaluation? Based on econometric analyses of evaluations of 100 product ideas proposed by 463 students, it shows that ideas supported by teams mostly composed of either males or females are as creative as ideas supported by mixed teams when they are evaluated by experts. When these ideas are evaluated by peers, the ideas supported by mixed teams are perceived as being less creative than ideas supported by teams that are predominantly composed of either males or females.

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  • Guy Parmentier & Séverine Leloarne-Lemaire & Mustapha Belkhouja, 2017. "Female Creativity in Organizations: What is the Impact of Team Composition in Terms of Gender during Ideation Processes? [La creatividad de las mujeres en las organizaciones: ¿Cuál es el impacto de," Post-Print hal-01700895, HAL.
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