The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
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- Sander Hoogendoorn & Hessel Oosterbeek & Mirjam van Praag, 2013. "The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 59(7), pages 1514-1528, July.
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Keywords
Gender diversity; team performance; entrepreneurship; field experiment; entrepreneurship education; board effectiveness;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2015-04-25 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2015-04-25 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2015-04-25 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
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