Journal
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 59, Issue 7, Pages 1514-1528Publisher
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1674
Keywords
gender diversity; team performance; field experiment; entrepreneurship education; board effectiveness
Funding
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Stibbe Lawyers
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This paper reports on 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 and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance (including complementarities, learning, monitoring, and conflicts) but find no support for them.
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