and approaches that recognize and capitalize on this greater consumer diversity is crucial. In business schools, diversity … tends to be discussed only in relation to human resource management. However, understanding the consequences of diversity is … this to happen. In this inaugural address, I argue that a diversity perspective is helpful in making sense of social …

, The Netherlands. His research interests include work group performance, especially work group diversity and group decision … organizations. In his inaugural address he argues that the effects of work group diversity on group performance should be understood … social categorization. He outlines how an integrative model of these processes may explain inconsistent findings in diversity …

group across two studies. Study 1 was a cross-sectional survey that focused on gender diversity and gender diversity beliefs …Research on work group diversity has more or less neglected the possibility that reactions to diversity may be informed … by individuals' beliefs about the value of diversity (vs. homogeneity) for their work group. We studied the role of such …

-demographic diversity in entrepreneurship (in terms of age, education and gender). We find that in less developed countries older and higher … homogeneous group. This study investigates the impact of entrepreneurial diversity on national economic growth. Using data for 36 …

Although there are numerous potential benefits to diversity in work groups, converging dimensions of diversity often … disruptive effects of diversity faultlines can be overcome by convincing groups of the value in diversity. Groups were either … persuaded of the value of diversity or of the value of similarity for group performance, and they were provided with either …

We conducted an experiment to show how the interplay between informational diversity and other dimensions of diversity … can account for some of the inconsistent effects of informational diversity in previous research. 70 four-person groups … involved in a decision-making task received homogeneous or heterogeneous information. By manipulating gender composition and …

upon discriminatory effects (direct effect). Whether gender has an impact on size and composition of start-up capital, is …

differential relative impact on female and male entrepreneurship, i.e., whether they influence the diversity or gender composition … of female entrepreneurs or the gender composition of entrepreneurship) to be able to select appropriate policy measures. …

(probit) equation model. It makes a systematic distinction between different ways in which gender influences the preference …-employed plays an important role in explaining their lower involvement in self-employment and that a gender effect remains that may … point at gender-based obstacles to entrepreneurship. …