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100 _aCorritore, M. Goldberg, A. and Srivastava, S.B.
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245 _aDuality in diversity: How intrapersonal and interpersonal cultural heterogeneity relate to firm performance
260 _aAdministrative Science Quarterly
300 _a65(2), Jun, 2020: p.359-394
520 _aHow does cultural heterogeneity in an organization relate to its underlying capacity for execution and innovation? Cultural diversity is commonly thought to present a tradeoff between task coordination and creative problem solving, with diversity arising primarily through cultural differences between individuals. In contrast, we propose that diversity can also exist within persons when individuals hold multiple cultural beliefs about the organization. We refer to these different forms as interpersonal and intrapersonal cultural heterogeneity. We argue that the former tends to undermine coordination and portends worsening firm profitability, while the latter facilitates creativity and supports greater patenting success and more positive market valuations. To evaluate these propositions, we use computational linguistics to identify cultural content in employee reviews of nearly 500 publicly traded firms on a leading company review website and then develop novel, time-varying measures of cultural heterogeneity. Our empirical results lend support for our two core propositions, suggesting the need to rethink the performance tradeoffs of cultural heterogeneity: it may be possible to reap the creativity benefits of higher intrapersonal heterogeneity and, at the same time, the efficiency benefits of lower interpersonal heterogeneity.- Reproduced
650 _aOrganizational culture, Cultural diversity, Organizational innovation, Firm performance, Intrapersonal diversity
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773 _aAdministrative Science Quarterly
906 _aORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
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