Environmental decisions made by individuals, civil society and the state involve questions of economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, equity and political legitimacy. These four criteria are constitutive of economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, which...

The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...

During the last three decades the ascent of behavioral economics clearly helped to bring down artificial disciplinary boundaries between psychology and economics. Noting that behavioral economics seems still under the spell of the rational choice tradition and, indirectly, of behaviorism we...

Der Beitrag von Sabine Lederle untersucht die Einführung des Diversity Managements in deutschen Organisationen. Lederle sieht in der ökonomischen Begründung, wonach personelle Diversität eine produktive, wettbewerbsrelevante Ressource darstellen kann, das prominenteste Argument für die...

In recent years, diversity management has evolved from a perspective on human resources management toward a conception of strategic management. This implies the need to adapt a central management function, strategic controlling, in order to render the conception of diversity management in...

The study analyses the application of Diversity Management among companies of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and elaborates differences between small and medium-sized as well as large companies. The results indicate that Hamburg companies are not extensively familiar with the concept...

This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie sich die Qualität der sozialen Beziehung zwischen einem Mitarbeiter und seinem Vorgesetzten auf den Umgang mit Konflikten auswirkt. Zur Charakterisierung der Beziehungsqualität unterscheiden wir fünf Beziehungstypen: die...