| Chapter 1: | Introduction |
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The second subsection of the third part describes the links between diversity and the different elements of innovation which are creativity, openness to change, and entrepreneurship. It is based on the research developed in the organizational sciences.
The third subsection of the third part describes the conditioning nature and the importance of the right context, and then it identifies the various elements of the right context on the level of firms. Subsequently, the right context elements are transposed to the level of countries. This subsection contains a final list of the right context elements as they have been identified through the theoretical part of the research.
The fourth and last subsection of the third part describes the operationalization of the empirical analysis. The fourth subsection includes the description of the hypothesis, the description of the dependent, independent, and intervening variables, as well as the description of the empirical model that I have developed to test the hypothesis.
The fourth part of the research deals with the empirical analyses. First, it explains the measurement of the variables. Second, it describes the conduct of the factor analysis, and it presents the results of the analyses and subsequent creation of the single scales for the variables. Finally, it describes the conduct and the results of the regression analysis that test the hypothesis. In the fifth part, I discuss the results of the factor analysis and the regression analysis, and I describe the general implications of the research. This part is followed by the conclusions, which consist of a short summary of the topic, with special focus on the results obtained, the description of their contribution to research, and the suggestions for further research.