The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

By W. Heath. 2008

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Algorithmic Decision Making and the Cost of Fairness (2017, neutral): “communities with varied perspectives and backgrounds [28].”
Is tolerance good or bad for growth? (2010, unknown): “21 For more on the LTS estimator and its application, see Verboven and Hubert (2005) and Rousseeuw and Van Driessen (2006).”
How Costly Is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness (2013, unknown): “Furthermore, the lower entry by women reduces diversity, which in and of itself may harm the firm (Page 2007, Weber and Zulehner 2010).”
Cultural Diversity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Firm-level Evidence from London (2013, background): “First, culturally diverse leadership teams may be better at generating new ideas or solving problems, particularly in knowledge-intensive environments (Page 2007; Fujita and Weber 2003).”
An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities and Segregation (2007, background): “25For a discussion see Page (2007).”
Lost in Translation? The Effect of Cultural Values on Mergers Around the World (2015, unknown): “In contrast, greater cultural distance could increase the likelihood of a successful merger if cultural diversity facilitates innovation and promotes new approaches to problem solving (Page, 2007).”
The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries (2013, background): “There is a large management literature testing small-sample correlations between aspects of diversity and business performance (see Page (2007) for a review).”
Network dynamics of social influence in the wisdom of crowds (2017, background): “Statistical explanations for this phenomenon argue that group accuracy relies on estimates taken from groups where individuals’ errors are either uncorrelated or negatively correlated, thereby preserving the diversity of opinions in a population (9).”
Board Ancestral Diversity and Firm Performance Volatility (2016, unknown): “We rely on the conclusions of social psychology studies (Page, 2007) showing that individuals with different cultures, educations and experiences tend to have different preferences, perspectives, and beliefs.”
How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect (2011, background): “This can be quantified by the “diversity prediction theorem” (9), which states that the collective error is equal to the average individual error minus the group’s diversity (Materials and Methods).”
Diversity is strategy: the effect of R&D team diversity on innovative performance (2017, unknown): “Teams with diverse backgrounds bring together a wider spectrum of taskrelevant knowledge, experience and perspectives that are distinct and non-redundant (van Knippenberg et al., 2004), which can be combined in new ways, leading to positive cognitive effects (Page, 2007).”
Using Large Language Models to Simulate Multiple Humans and Replicate Human Subject Studies (2022, unknown): “Similar ﬁndings have been reported across an array of domains (Page, 2007; Surowiecki, 2004).”