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awareness and knowledge, managing ethical diversity over cross-country business transactions ends up to be a major challenge for …
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This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the … indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned … about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that inhabit a given area. Concepts of species diversity such as alpha …
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This paper is part of a larger dissertation project named: A Production of Diversity: Appearances, Ideas, Interests …, I have attempted to describe, understand and analyse a process of diversity production at a large manufacturing company … studying “diversity in organizations”. A starting-point for my discussion here is an assumption that researchers, by exploring …
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Theories on diversity and diversity management within the field of Organisation Studies started to develop in the 80s …, mainly under the influence of managerial reports pointing towards the increasing diversity of the future workforce. The … purpose of this paper is to 1) review the existing studies on diversity identifying their main purposes, 2) identify the …
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-viewing habits, dress type preferences, birth order, body type, socio-economic status and gender. The importance of the source of …
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. Generalized trust fundamentally rests upon a foundation of respect for diversity, but at the same time arguing that societies have … equality. Yet some claim that diversity leads to less trust rather than more trust. Trusting people who are different from … population diversity. It is not diversity that matters--it is how populations are distributed. I show that trust is lower not in …
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Social capital refers to the stock of social relations, based on norms and networks of cooperation and trust that spill over to the market and state to enhance collective action between actors and achieve improved social efficiency and economic growth. The aim of the present paper is to discuss...
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This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME – Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments, financed by the European Commission – FP5 – Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007
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of the diversity that they offer. The framework considered assumes a finite universe of objects and an a priori given …
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This paper examines the genesis and trajectory of diversity in the USA. It argues that unfortunately diversity was more …, diversity assumed a highly hierarchical form with blacks at the bottom and whites at the top within a framework of manifest …
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