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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

A key question in organizations is whether there is an optimal balance between diversity and sameness within teams of workers. Findings from a field experiment within a nonprofit research organization based in Kenya suggest much of the tradeoff between diversity and sameness may come from the different effects diversity has along different dimensions of organizational structure. Diversity along the organization’s hierarchy improves both effort and performance.

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

This research looks at why entrepreneurs from certain ethnicities cluster in particular industries, such as Vietnamese nail care salons.