IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/scotjp/v72y2025i3ne12411.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Cultural group diversity and team performance: The importance of international employees

Author

Listed:
  • Guan‐Yuan Wang

Abstract

In the ongoing debates regarding performance disparities between homogeneous and heterogeneous teams, we examine team dynamics within the National Basketball Association to provide insights into this issue. Utilizing Shannon entropy, we measure the cultural diversity of player nationalities within each team. Through panel data modeling with interactive and mediating effects, we empirically investigate the impact of workforce diversity on team performance. Our findings reveal that diversity influences team success through both offensive performance and defensive effort. Importantly, our results highlight a positive relationship between team heterogeneity and win percentages, underscoring the advantages of diversity in enhancing overall team performance.

Suggested Citation

  • Guan‐Yuan Wang, 2025. "Cultural group diversity and team performance: The importance of international employees," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 72(3), July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:scotjp:v:72:y:2025:i:3:n:e12411
    DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12411
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12411
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/sjpe.12411?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:scotjp:v:72:y:2025:i:3:n:e12411. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/sesssea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.