top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region. …A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this … relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little …

Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy … issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts …. Based on different perspectives and features of the available data, a great variety of diversity indicators have emerged …

In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members. -- entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; skill … heterogeneity ; team dynamics …

ventures together in teams. In this paper we test whether the effect of more balanced skills is also positive in a team of … specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program … results show that balanced skills are beneficial to team performance, and that it is hard to substitute individual balanced …

confirmed in a real effort experiment. -- Team ; transparency ; peer pressure ; free-riding ; incentives ; inequity aversion …

contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. We find: First, inequity aversion alters … simple rationale for team based incentives in many environments. Fourth, the Sufficient Statistics Result is violated …. Dependent on the environment, optimal contracts may be either overdetermined or incomplete. -- contract theory ; linear …

Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial … empirically. This paper provides evidence on the empirical properties of various spatial measures of cultural diversity by using … maps that enable us to assess the performance of various spatial measures of cultural diversity under a range of …

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in …