Massive digitalization advances have made demand response (DR) programs feasible in the residential sector; however, most households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region do not know about these types of programs. In this report, the authors explore experiments about the willingness of...

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...

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...

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...