The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams: Evidence from a field experiment

Management Science

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1514-1528

  Hoogendoorn, Sander ^a,b   Oosterbeek, Hessel ^a   Van Praag, Mirjam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Board Effectiveness; Entrepreneurship education; Field experiment; Gender diversity; Team performance

Indexed keywords

BOARD EFFECTIVENESS; ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENDER DIVERSITY; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

CURRICULA; STUDENTS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84880361298     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1674     Document Type: Article

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