Board human capital diversity and corporate innovation: a longitudinal study

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect board human capital diversity on corporate innovation. Moreover, it examines moderating internal social relationship between and Design/methodology/approach hypotheses are tested using a data set Standard & Poor’s 1500 firms from 2000 2015. To overcome omit variable bias reverse causality, uses change-on-change regression by exploring exogenous shock death directors. Findings show that industry has curvilinear with In addition, co-tenure experience, key factor capital, can mitigate risk improve Originality/value Prior studies mostly considered demographic dimension and, therefore, have overlooked how other dimensions influence firms. This considers investigates firm’s innovation outcome. also addresses question whether interaction different director attributes, namely, complement each enhance