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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...
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Die Forschung zur Auswirkung von funktionaler Team Diversity auf Teamleistung hat bisher gemischte Ergebnisse gebracht …Research on the relationship between functional diversity and team performance has produced mixed findings. The present … study is designed to investigate possible curvilinear relationships between functional team diversity, trust, elaboration …
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Warum und wie Diversity Management Eingang in deutsche Organisationen fand, wird vor dem theoretischen Hintergrund des organisationssoziologischen Neoinstitutionalismus analysiert. Dazu werden qualitative Interviews mit Diversity-Beauftragten mittels einer wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse...
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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...
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achievement, social competence, training-specific 'jobability', training- specific autonomous activity. The results show a clear …
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This article considers cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of concrete outcomes in co … projects managers in partnering organisations, addressing technical and scientific competence, R&D management competence and … competence being developed appear to be better predictors of concrete project outcomes than geographic distance, differences in …
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[...] The aim of the study is to provide a comparative overview of policy and practice concerning the development and implementation of key competences in the education systems of the 27 Member States of the European Union. In particular, the study assesses the implementation of the 8 key...
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principals. The "governor's dilemma" results from the tradeoff between agent competence and principal control. Competent agents … impedes agent competence by constraining the development and exercise of agent capabilities. If a principal emphasizes control …, it limits agent competence and risks policy failure; if it emphasizes competence, it provides opportunistic agents …
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the most essential change caused by intellectual capital has taken place in relation to competence because the focus is … shifting from individual’s competencies to collective competence. Changes in work environment, work community and employee …
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This paper shows that applying simple employment-weighted OLS estimation to Davis - Haltiwanger - Schuh (1996) firm level job creation rates taking the values 2 and -2 for entering and exiting firms, respectively, provides biased and inconsistent parameter estimates. Consequently, we argue that...
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