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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325918
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326395
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014
What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team's performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377189
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326380
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance : A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039713
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance : A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040491