This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study uses a difference-in-differences approach to show that...

We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team task. By design, effects on team performance...

Strong interpersonal ties between team members are necessary for optimal Team Performance in an interdependent work environment with diverse employee demography and culture. In order to test the Analytical model based on two management theories Social Exchange Theory (SET) and Role Theory (RT),...

AbstractThis paper examines the effect of national team intervention, a direct financial intervention in the Chinese stock market, on overinvestment among Chinese energy firms. We argue that the choice of the national team as an information release in the stock market can become a decision basis...

We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet constraints for women are particularly pronounced. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male...

Digitalisation reshapes both the workplace and the forms of communication used within a team. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, rethinking leadership has required transitioning from a physical to an entirely virtual work environment to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, accelerating and increasing the...

Entrepreneurial activity is a continuous learning process that is rife with uncertainty, and the dialectical interactions arising from knowledge differences and knowledge conflict among individuals on an entrepreneurial team influence team members' entrepreneurial learning. By reference to fear...

The aim of this study is to investigate the multilevel effect of leader affiliative humor on knowledge sharing behavior. Based on social information processing (SIP) theory, we frame a multilevel model of the effect of leader affiliative humor on employee knowledge sharing, focusing on the...