TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fang, Tony
AU  - Gunderson, Morley
AU  - Hartley, John
        TI  - Do Top Executive’s Immigration Status and Management Perception of Multiculturalism Matter?
        PY  - 2025/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17810
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17810
        AB  - Using data from a largely representative survey of 801 Atlantic Canadian employers, this paper conducts regression analyses to test associations between two diversity variables and five objective and subjective measures of firm performance: revenue change and employment change in the previous three years, projected revenue change and employment change over the next three years and projected provincial economic growth/decline over the next three years. We find that firms with an immigrant CEO and/or owner are more likely to forecast revenue growth, report recent employment growth, and forecast provincial economic growth. Employers who believe that a multicultural workforce enhances creativity are more likely to report recent employment growth and more likely to forecast provincial economic growth in the medium-term. This is consistent with most national studies, which tend to show immigrant-owned companies are more likely to create jobs and firm growth (Picot and Ostrovsky, 2021).
        KW  - employer survey
KW  - immigrant-owned businesses
KW  - management diversity
KW  - multiculturalism
KW  - organizational performance
KW  - Atlantic Canada
        ER  -