Professor Matilde Ruiz Arroyo will teach an international seminar within the Doctoral Program on Business Management.
- Friday, December 1st, 2023, 10h00. Room 1P06
" The role of perceived conflict and diversity in organisational creativity: A gender perspective: https://shorturl.at/ahks7
The seminar will be coordinated and presented by professor Ana García Granero (ana.garcia-granero@uv.es).
Matilde Ruiz Arroyo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Organization I at the Universidad de Granada. She is a researcher in the Grupo de Investigación Avanzada en Dirección Empresarial (IADE, SEJ-478) and a member of the international network GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor). Her research focuses on entrepreneurship and SMEs management, with a focus in topics such as gender and women’s entrepreneurship, determinants of the entrepreneurial process, the role of context, the effectuation approach in entrepreneurship, and sustainability in entrepreneurship and new ventures.
In this work in progress, she presents the preliminary results of a study conducted in the Autonomous City of Melilla, a Spanish city located in the North of Africa. Due to its historical background and geographic situation, in this city people from different cultures and religions live together. This study is part of a research line developed for the Institute of Cultures, a collaboration that took place during her stay there as member of the academic staff of the Melilla Campus of the Universidad de Granada. Based on a structured questionnaire administered through a CATI system and aimed at the founder and/or manager of the firm, they collected a sample of 120 SMEs. In this study they analyse the relationship of conflict and gender diversity with organizational creativity, considering the contingent role of the manager's gender and the degree of cultural diversity in the organization. The results point to a significant moderating role of the manager's gender in the negative association between conflict and organizational creativity, so that if the manager is a woman, this negative effect is lower. When comparing groups regarding level of cultural diversity (high versus low), they also found interesting differences in this moderated relationship.
